Holograph draft of letter from Newton to Treasury Secretary Lowndes 21 December 1717 (<ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00575">MINT00575</ref> (Mint 19/2/245)) and some religious notes

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Guineas to a pound weight Troy & 21s 6d to a Guinea, & in In obedience to yoryour LordpsLordships Order of Reference of Nov the 19th Instant that we should Lay before an account should be laid before yoryour LordpsLordships of what Gold & Silver hath have been coyned the last 15 years & how much out of thereof has been coyned out of England plate & what quantity of copper money h hath been newly coyned: this aut it is humbley represented that since Christmas 170

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to thisat of this instant November there hathve been coyned in Gold

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Guineas to a pound weight Troy & in Silver 223380 pounds sterling recconning 3li 2s to a pound weight Troy whereof 11167 13342li. pounds sterling were coyned out of plate the Vigo plate in the years 1703 & 1704 & 143085.16 pounds sterling were coined out of English Plate imported by Acts of P. in the years 1709, & 1711 & the rest of the silver about 45732 pounds sterling was coyned out of pieces of eight in the year 1708 silver extracted from our own Lead Ore & the rest of the silver moneys amounting to 21220li was coyned out of it out of english silver most of which was extracted out of our own Lead our Plate melted down & some of it out of Peeces of eight & Brittish The Graver of the Mint hath been hard at work ever since the last sessions of Parliament, in making the Embosments & Puncheons for the half pence & farthings & taking off a few Dyes from them. The making of an Embossment & Puncheon for an halfpenny takinesg up the time of about six weeks, & there being have been two embossments & two Puncheons made for the half pence & one for the farthings. And now these are finished & & some Dyes are made from the Puncheons, it will take up a little time to examin the copper & settle the best method of preparing working the copper in point of preparing sizing & cleaning the copper a due degree of fineness, it & making it fit for the Mint, this being a new manufacture not yet practised in England –. All wchwhich V And as soon as For the manufacturing of fine copper is different from that of manufactoring coarse copper & much more difficult. As soon as this method is fixed we shall begin to coine in quantity. All which &c this being a new manufactur different from that of coarse copper, & & more difficult & not yet practised in England. And as soon as this method is fixed we should begin to coin in quantity.

into communion: vizt repentance from the dead works of the world the flesh & the Devil. & the Creed or systeme or doctrine of faith here called Faith inclu & baptism in the name of the father, Son & holy ghost, including of admission into Communion, & & admission into Communion & Confirmation founded upon it including the resurrection & day last judgment. And under the name of strong meats &c But this wold would be to alter the terms of salvation wchwhich cannot be done by any humane authority. Temporary laws may be made about changeable circumstances of religion & temporary Iudges may be made appointed to execute those laws but the laws of salvation are unalterable. Dan. 7. 25 Men may be excommunicated for breaking the conditions upon wchwhich they were admitted into communion, but not for any thing else. And men of the same communion are to love one another. Enmity & discord – – – of the same communion & if they censure one another, strong in faith despise the weak or the weak judge the strong with what judgmtjudgment they judge they shall be judged. For baptism is into the remission of Sins is of divine institution & the laws of God are unalterable. Dan 7 Temporary laws may be made by men about the changeable circumstances of religion, b& temporary Iudges may be appointed to put the laws of God & the King in execution Ezra 7. 25, 26. But the Gospel wchwhich Christ sent his Apostles to preach is the law of god is not alterable by humane authority. It is the law of God: & if an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel then that wchwhich the Apostles preached [imposing it as t a law of God necessary to communion & salvation,] let him be accursed. Gal. 1. 8, 9. As for instance if the God who in the beginning appeared to Adam in Paradise be Christ, the God who appeared to the Patriarchs & to Moses in the bush & who wrastled with Iacob, & we led the Israelites out of Egypt (Exod. 23. 20, 21.) & in Daniel & the Apocalyps is called Michael gave the law in Mount Sina. & who came down from heaven became flesh took on him the form of a servant, reascended & is now glorified with the [Τὸ εἶναι ἴσα θεῷ] glory wchwhich he had with the father before the world began. & who came down from heaven became flesh, ascended where he was before, & is now glorified with the glory wchwhich he had with the father before the world began. The God whose throne is for ever, & whose God (because he loved righteousness) hath annointed him with the oyle of gladness above his fellows; & who in the beginning laid the foundation of the earth & made the heavens. [See Psal 45. 6, 7. & Psal 102. 25] & who came down from heaven, was made flesh, ascended where he was before & was glorified sits at the right hand of God in the glory wchwhich he had with the father before the world began. Et Leibnitius de serie Mercatoris a Pellio admonitus seriem fuit Et Pellius cui hæ series ignotæ non erunt, cum Leibnitio de seriebus verba habuit. And since as the Prophesies of the o wchwhich were given before the building of the second Temple, so far as of the old Testament were relating to Christs first coming were remained in obs remained in obscurity till that coming & then were expounded by divine Christ so at at his first coming so far as they related to that coming, & then expositi the interpretations thence forward became a part of the religion of Gods people: so theose prophesies & the prophesies of so the Prophesies of both Testaments so far as they relate to his second coming may be expounded by divine authority at that coming & the interpretations may thence forward be made a part of the religion of Gods people for the future