Draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00625">MINT00625</ref> (Mint 19/2/363) Isaac Newton c. 1,246 words Newton Project London 2019 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 c. 15 November 1714, c. 1,246 words.

Mint 19/2/337 has also been used for a holograph draft syllabus for Stone's Foundation.

 Reply to a Treasury enquiry about copper coinage techniques [MINT 19/2/363] MINT 19/2/337, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/337 c. 15 November 1714 England English Holograph MintCopper Coinage Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Kees-Jan Schilt

May it pl. yoer Lordpsplease your Lordships

According to yoer LordpsLordships Order dated signified to us by Mr Lowndes & his Letter of 28 Inat of October last: We have humbly lay before us yoer LordpsLordships the method of coyning copper money wchwhich we take to be the best, vizt That

That they Copper be fiit mbe made of fine malleable English Copper malleable like that of Swedeland, & of S English Copper malleable under the hammer when like the Swed without cracking when made red hot. For such Copper is free from mixture & is of about the same degree of fineness with the Swedish Copper money.

That such Copper be made into Fillets of a due breadth & thickness at the battering Mills or drawing mills & received at the Mint by weight & assay upon the Note of the Master & Worker's Note, & that the Master & WrWorker upon delivering back to the Importer the same weight of Copper in money & Scissel together be discharged of his Note of his Receipt, the importer at the same time paying the Master a certain seigniorage for the moneys per pound wt for bearing the Charges of the Mint & Coynage, & & that the Master & Worker be accountable for the Seigniorage.

That Mr Eyres a Refiner of Copper proposes to make & size the Fillets b wthwithby a drawing Mill for 15d per lwt of the blanks out out of them & if a penny more be allowed to him for putting away the money & 4 pence for seigniorage, the whole will amount unto 20£d pr lwt. And for an this for defraying this charge We humbly propose that a pound weight be cut into 20£.

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To Sr Isaac Newton TheseThe charge of making the fillets at the battering Mills & sizing them will amount unto 1712d per lwt besides the charges of fill erecting sizing Mills. So that And therefore wethis great charge makes us prefer the way if making of the fillets by the batteringdrawing th Mills.

The Fillets imported may be assayed by heating a few of them red hot at one end & trying if they will beare the hammer without cracking. The money may be assayed before delivery in the following manner Let a Tunn of Copper money be well mixed together & at each of the four sides of the heap let so much copper money be counted for a tryal as should make a pound weight. And if each of themof the parcells counted out makes a pound wthwithwt without the error of a half penny of the weight of a half penny & one two peices taken out of each assayparcell endures the assay by the hammer, the money shallto be deliverable. If the said four Assaysparcels differ not fr in weight from one another above the weight of a farthing, the tale of the whole Tunn shallmay be estimated by putting int t in the same tproportion to the tale of the tale of the four assaysparcells (vizt to 80d) as the weight of a Tunn is to yethe weight of the four Assaysparcells And these four Assays wthwith the weight & take of every Tunn of Copper so assayed shallmay be entered in books. And if the money at any time prove twotoo light or twotoo heavy, the weight may be corrected in the coynage of the next parcellcopper imported. The Assays may be made by the QueensKings Assaymaster or his Clerk, & the Importer may be 337 present if he desires it. 1 A piece Two or more pieces may be taken out of every Tun & put into a Pix & tried every year by the Queens Assayer beforetwo or three such such persons as the LdLord TrearerTreasurer ofr Lds Commers of yethe TrearyLords Commissioners of the Treasury shall appoint. The Mr & WrMaster and Worker proposes to detain out of the seigniorage 314d for himself the AssaymrAssaymaster, Graver, Smith, Moneyers & two Clerks for coyning & Assaying the moneys & keeping the coyning tools in repair & buying baggs boxes a& barrels for holding the moneys & scales & weights for weighing it. And the remaining three farthings may be applyed to repairs & buying coyingcoyning Tools & other incidents The seig Out of the Seigniorage the MrMaster may detain 1d for himself the Graver Smith, & 2d for the Moneyers & the remaining penny may be applied to half a farthing for fthe Assayer Auditor & two Clerks one for the king the other for himself, & for paying for stationary wares & incidents in the Assay office & for Barrells Boxes & Baggs to put put the money into. And the rest for keepingof the seigniorage may be applied to repairs of buildings, pur& to t purchasing coyning Tools & putting them into repairs in the beginning. For after they are put into repairs the moneyers are to keep them in repairs. The Warden & Comptroller &or may hav kings Clerk ormay make a Controllment Roll of all the money coyned annually & the MrMaster tomay insert the accounts of the Copper yearly into hiscoynage into his annuall acctaccount of the coynage of Gold & Silver. The Warden & Comptroller may have authority to inspect the Copper coynage & the Controller or kings Clerk may make a Controllment Roll annually & the annual acctaccount of the Copper Coynage be inserted into that of the gold & Silver. And for making this AcctAccount
In the School of Mr Stones foundation, 1 Algebra & the Conick sections should not be taught. 2 Navigation should be taught only to so many boys as are intended for the Sea. 4 Mensuration of Timber, Boards, Wainscot, Brickwordk, Glass work &c should be taught only to such boys as may have use of mensuration in the rades they are to go tobe bound out unto 5 The five mechanical powers should be taught only to such boys as are designed for trades in which motion force & weight are to be considered. 3 Th Gunnery, fortification, & Ingineering should be taught only to such boys as are designed for those imployments. Three months is sufficient to Either Mensuration, or gunnery Geometry & Fo the 5 Powers or may be taught in two or three months & so may the doctrine of the five powers or that of Gunnery & Fortification may be taught in three months, And any two of them may be taught in five months, & all three in six or eight months. And for learningteaching these it is not suffi requisite to ltearnch all the six first PropositionsBooks of Euclide. So much as concerns the mensuration of areas & solids & the similitude of Triangles, reduced into a few Propositions, sis sufficient. When any boys have learnt what may be usefull in the Trades to wchwhich thaey are to be putbound out they smay leave the School & be succeeded by new boys: by wchwhich means a great number will be taught. A Table of the Trades in wchwhich the learning of Every class may be usefull may be hung up in the School. Hydrostaticks reduced into a few Propositions may be taught in a week or a fortnight so far as it may be usefull to those that go to sea or to such trades any way concernedas have any thing to do with Waterworks.