Copy of letter to the Chester Mint requesting money taken out of each journey to be sent to the Mint in London

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 10/2/54r, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Officers of y^e Mint at Chester

Gent^men

Wee direct You that all the pieces of money taken out of each Iourney to be sent hither (when required) to be assized, And all the pieces deliverd to Y^r. Assay Master to be assay'd, be return'd to Y^r dep: Master who is allready charg'd with both & accountable for them: And You may forbear for the future takeing out a piece out of each Iourney to send hither to be assayd, unless You are particularly requir'd so to doe by

Gent^men &c

^[1]

Is Newton

Tho Neale

Tho: Molyneux

^[1] London
Mint Office Aug^st 5: 97

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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