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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/568, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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<568r>

Anne R.

Whereas we are informed that a considerable quantity of gold & silver has been taken by o^r Royal Fleet at the late Expedition at Vigo, Our will & pleasure is & we do hereby require & authorise you to cause to be coyned all such Gold & Silver as shall be brought into o^r Mint and delivered unto you in the name of with this inscription Vigo in small letters under o|O|ur Effigies, w^ch we intend as a mark of distinction &|f|rom the rest of o^r Gold & silver moneys and to continue to posterity the remembrance of that glorious action. And for so doing this shall be yo^r Warrant. Given at our Court &c

Professor Rob Iliffe
Director, AHRC Newton Papers Project

Scott Mandelbrote,
Fellow & Perne librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge

Faculty of History, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL - newtonproject@history.ox.ac.uk

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