Coinage accounts 1713-1715 Isaac Newton c. 716 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 c. 25 March 1715, c. 716 words.

Entitled 'An Account of the Gold & Silver coyned at his Maty's Mint in the Tower of London from Lady day [25 March] 1713 to Lady day 1715, & of the Gold & Silver remaining in the Tower in order for coynage at Lady day 1715, & of the Denominations & species in wch the said Gold & Silver were brought into the Tower'.

On reverse of Mint 19/2/268: notes on the relative values of silver and gold in England and France. Mint 19/2/269 also features four variant versions of one sentence which appear to represent Newton practising different styles of handwriting.

 MINT 19/2/268-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/268-9 c. 25 March 1715 England English Holograph Unknown Hand MintGold and Silver Coinage Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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An Account of the Gold & Silver coyned at his Maty'sMajestys Mint in the Tower of London from Lady day 1713 to Lady day 1715, & of the Gold & Silver remaining in the Tower in order for coynage at Lady day 1715, & the Denominations & species in wchwhich the said Gold & Silver were brought into the Tower.

From Lady day 1713 to Lady day 1715 there were coyned 44179 pounds weight Troy of standard Gold, & 3899Lwt of standard silver. This Gold at 4412 Guineas to the pound weight & 1li 1s 6d to the Guinea amounted in tale to 2113412li. 18s. 3d. And the silver at 3li 2s per Lwtpound weight to 12086li. 18s. 00d.

At Lady day 1715, there remained in the Tower to be coyned 64656464. 11. 2. 5 Lwtpound weight of standard Gold & 278. 4. 11 Lwtpound weight of standard silver. And this Gold at the rate abovementioned will make in tale 6309265, . 17. 7 & the silver will make 862li. 19s. 06d. The Gold above mentioned came to the Mint partly in the form of Portugal Barrs & partly in the form of Barrs or Ingots melted by the Goldsmiths in London. We account these Ingots to have been melted out of forreign moneysout of forreign moneys (hose of France, Portugal, Holland, Germany &c), & sometimes out of Gold dust, or out of Iamaica Gold tuffened. or refined. But in orour books we enter nothing more then the weight & assay of every Barr or Ingot with the name of the Importer. All Tthe silver above mentioned has been extracted out of English Lead by a Corporation of Smelters mr Wright & Partners, & coames to us in the form of Ingots of fine silver, & under the denomination of English & Welsh Silver is stamped on the rReverse of the moneys with a proper mark to distinguish it from other silver moneys made of forreign silver. R. S. I. N. M. B. (those of France Portugal, Spain, France, Holland, Germany Spain &c chiefly those of France) 64654. 11. 2. 5 A pound weight of fine Gold is worth 15 pound weight of fine silver in France & 14∟43135115∟571737 = 1447 pound weight of fine silver in England according to law And a Guinea is worth in France only 1li. 0s. 812. 269 All the Gold & Silver above mentioned came to yethe Mint in the form of barrs & Ingots, some of wchwhich are were Portugal barrs & others were melted in London London Barrs melted by the Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of forreign gold moneys & gold dust & coarse Iamaica gold brought to them by the Merchants the various denotminations & species of wchwhich are not entred in orour bokoks. And all the siversilver above mentioned was extracted out of English Lead. All the silver above mentioned was extracted out of English Lead, & all the Gold came to the Mint in the form of bBarrs or Ingots, some of which were Portugal bBarrs & others were bBarrs melted by the Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of forreign gold moneys, gold dust & coarse Iamaica gold, the various denominations & species of wchwhich are not entred in our books. & all the gold came to yethe Mint in yethe forme of Barrs of Ingots great part whereof wereBy their shape we do conceive to have been imported from Portugal Barrs in Barrs Ingots Barrs & the Rest were Barrs melted by yethe Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of Forreign Gold moneys chiefly french & Portugese. All the silver above mentioned was extracted out of Le English lead & all the gold came to yethe Mint in the form of Barrs or Ingots the several denomination or species of wchwhich are nowt entred in orour books. But by the shape & assay of the Barrs we conceive great part thereof to have been imported from Portugal by the shape & fineness of thein Barrs & the rest to have been Barrs melted into barrs by the Goldsmiths in London chiefly out of French out offrom various sorts of forreign moneysgold & &chiefly from the moneys of Freanchh & Portugal moneys. before it came to the Tower