Report on the Edinburgh Mint Isaac Newton c. 279 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 23 June 1707, c. 279 words. Treasurer

Holograph copy in T. 1/102.57, MINT00951 (dated 24 June and printed in NC, 4: 494-5).

Advises that the Edinburgh Mint has only one clerk, and that the processes and bookkeeping methods used there do not conform to English practice, with which none of their officers is familiar. Suggests David Gregory and one of the London clerks be sent to instruct them, and requests that a salary for this service be decided on. The London Mint will supply Edinburgh with dies and puncheons until the Edinburgh engraver's work is found satisfactory.

 MINT 19/3/181, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/3/181 23 June 1707 England English Holograph MintEdinburgh Mint MintCorrespondence Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott, with retrofitting of normalized MINT00951
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To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Earle of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer.

May it please yoryour LordpLordship

According to yoryour LordpsLordships verbal order to lay before yoryour LordpLordship Memorials of what may be requisite for setting on foot the coynage in Scotland with Expedition; I humbly represent that upon being informed that there is but one Clerk in the Mint at Edinburgh for rating & standarding, that for want of more Clerks errors are sometimes committed & the silver not rightly standarded, that their assaying & rating & standarding & way of book-keeping differ from ours & must be set right, & that none of their chief Officers have yet acquainted themselves with our practise, I have spoke wthwith Dr Gregory Professor of Astronomy at Oxford (as I acquainted yoryour LordpLordship) & with one of the Clerks of the Mint in the Tower about going to that Mint to instruct their Officers & Clerk & assisting them in their business till Michaelmas next,, so that the coynage may be there speedily & duly set on foot: And if yoryour LordpLordship approves thereof, I humbly propose that for setling this matter, a suitable recompence for that service may be appointed, the consideration thereof (if yoryour LordpLordship pleases) being first referred to such persons as yoryour LordpLordship shall think fit.

And whereas Dyes & perhaps Puncheons are to be sent from hence till such time as the work of the Graver of that Mint shall be approved, I further humbly propose that the prizes of those things may be also referred & setled.

All wchwhich is most humbly submitted to

Mint Office. 23 Iune. 1707.

YorYour LordpsLordships great wisdome

Is. Newton