Letter from Newton to the Treasury commissioners concerning personal sureties and the new Indenture of the Mint

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MS Add. 3965, f. 384r, Cambridge University Library, Cambridge, UK

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

May it please your Lordships

Vpon the passing of a new Indenture, I being to give security in 2000^£ besides my own bond, I humbly propose for my sureties M^r Hall the Comptroller of the salt Office in a Bond of one thousand pounds & D^r Fauquier my Deputy in a Bond of another thousand pounds. [& pray that it may be referred to the proper Officers in the Exchequer Office to enquire into the sufficiency of these sureties.]

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great wisdome Isaac Newton Mint Office 6 May 1718

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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