Letter concerning a potential raise of the salary of the Porter of the Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/251.29, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Right Hon^ble the Lords Commissioners of his Ma^ts Treasury.

May it please yo^r Lord^ps

The Clerks & under Officers of the Mint whose salaries were not above forty pounds per an, have lately had their salaries increased by one fourth part by a signe manual, except the Porter of the Mint M^r \Robert/ Low. And I humbly pray that his Salary, w^ch is but twenty pounds per an, may in like manner be increased to twenty & five pounds per an

Which is most humbly submitted to your Lord^ps great wisdome

^[1]

Isaac Newton

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Peticon of S^r. Isaac Newton |for the Porter of the Mint \to/ have £25.|

13 Apr 1724

13 Apr.
1724

^[1] Mint Office
April 13^th. 1724

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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