Letter concerning adjustments to the standard weights of the current money

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: T 1/48.49, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majesties Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

According to your Lordships direction I have made & adjusted three setts of money weights to be standard weights for money current in the Kingdome of Ireland. And they are ready to be delivered when & where your Lordships shall please to order. I am

^[1]

Your Lordships most humble

& most obedient Servant

^[2]

Is. Newton

^[1] Mint Office
Oct. 19. 1697

^[2] Rob^t Rutter.

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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