Proposed measures to be taken in the wake of Daniel Stewart's recent death. Presumably a variant of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00402">MINT00402</ref> (Mint 19/3/131) Isaac Newton c. 365 words The Newton Project Oxford 2016 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 14 April 1708, c. 365 words. Treasurer

Printed in NC, 4: 515-16. Signed holograph copy of the same date, without the deleted paragraph, in PRO, T1/106, no. 54. Further drafts at MINT00594 (Mint 19/5/30) and MINT00705 (Mint 19/5/29).

Suggests Stewart's post of bullion collector, 'being irregular', be suppressed, and the Edinburgh Mint's financial arrangements remodelled on London's. Stewart's executors should be ordered to hand back to the Mint a sum of between £2,500 and £5,000 owing to it. [The last paragraph (on recouping money from Stewart's executors) has been struck through.]

 MINT 19/3/46, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/3/46 14 April 1708 England English Holograph Unknown Hand Unknown Hand (1) MintEdinburgh Mint MintCorrespondence Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott Will Scott finished transcription

To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Earl of Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of great Britain.

May it please your LordpLordship

We humbly beg leave to lay before your LordpLordship that Mr Daniel Stuart the Collector of the Bullion for her MajtiesMajesties Mint at Edinburgh is newly dead (as we hear by the last Post) & that in orour humble opinion the place of Collector of the Bullion being neither necessary nor irregular should cease & the said Bullion be henceforth paid by the Vnder Collectors into the hands of the Cashkeeper of North Britain & kept apart in the Exchequer in a proper Chest under the key of the said Caskhkeeper & also, if it be thought fit, under the key of the General of her MajtiesMajesties said Mint (as is directed by the Scotch Act of Parliament whereby this Duty is granted to the Mint,) & that it be issued out thence from time to time by Warrants to the General & Master of the said Mint & kept apart in the Treasury of the said Mint under the keys of the General the Master & the Wardens for defraying the charges of coynage & repairs & paying of Salaries, & be accounted for annually by the Master, so that the two Mints in respect of their cash may be under the same Rules in conformity to the Act of Vnion & the Indenture of her MatiesMajesties Mints

And we are further humbly of opinion that the Executor or Executors of the said Mr Stuart be directed forthwith to pay into the hands of the General & Master of the said Mint such a summ of money as your LordpLordship shall think fit, suppose the summ of 2500li, or 5000li to be kept in the Treasury of that Mint under the keys of thae General the Master & Wardens, that the service of that Mint receive no stop for want of moneys, there being as we are very credibly informed, a far greater summ in the hands of the Executor of the said Mr Stuart.

All which is most humbly submitted to yoryour LordpsLordships great Wisdome.

Mint Office 14th April 1709.

Is. Newton

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