Three partial holograph drafts of a letter reporting the tests of Charles Brattell and Catesby Oadham for the post of assay master (two other candidates not having appeared): Brattell is judged the better candidate

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/1/93, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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& by Tertullian De carne Christi sub finem & by Cyprian.

To the most Honourable the Earl of Oxford & Earl Mortimer Lord High Treasurer of great Britain

May it please your Lordship

The Ecu of Rome 5. 1 $\frac{3}{4}$ . The Iudio of Florence 6_∟08 6_∟15 The lire of Florence 9_∟22

The lire of Genoa 105. The Iulo of Rome 6_∟107. The lire of Rome 9_∟16.

The lire of Millain 7_∟91. The Philip of Millain 55_∟4

According to your Lordships Order M^r Brattel & M^r Oadham have made assays of gold & silver before us, & we are humbly of opinion that M^r Brattel is the better Artist. M^r Kemp & M^r Cumberlege waved the triall

According to your Lordships Order of the 2^d Instant upon the Petition of M^r Catesby Oadham, that we should cause a trial to be made before us by him & also by the rest of the Petitioners to their qualifications for the Office of Assaymaster of her Majestys Mint (if they desire it;) & that we should then make our Report to your Lordship which of them we conceive to be the most expert & fittest person for that implyment We have caused such a tryall to be made between M^r Cha Brattel & M^r Oadham & humbly conceive M^r Brattle to be the more expert & fitter person for that Imployment. The other Petitioners upon notice have not desired a tryal.

According to your Lordships Order upon the Petition of M^r Catesby Oadham for a tryal as to his Qualifications for the place of Assaymaster of the Mint, signified to us by M^r Harleys Letter of 2^d instant, that we should cause a trial to be made before us by him & the rest of the Petitioners for the said Office whose Petitions have been referred to us (if they desired it,); & that we should then make our Report to your Lordship which of them we conceived to be the most expert & fittest person for that imployment: We have caused such a trial to be made before us by M^r Ch: Brattel & M^r Oadham, humbly conceive M^r to be the more expert & fitter person for that imployment.