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<title>Holograph fragment of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00643">MINT00643</ref> (Mint 19/2/319) and notes on the dates of mythical figures written on a torn-off piece of a clerical copy of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00651">MINT00651</ref> (Mint 19/2/425)</title>
<author xml:id="in"><persName key="nameid_1" sort="Newton, Isaac" ref="nameid_1" xml:base="http://www.newtonproject.sussex.ac.uk/catalogue/xml/persNames.xml">Isaac Newton</persName></author>

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<authority>The Newton Project</authority>
<pubPlace>Oxford</pubPlace>
<date>2017</date>
<publisher>Newton Project, University of Oxford</publisher>
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<notesStmt><note type="metadataLine">September 1717, <hi rend="italic">c.</hi> 244 words.</note></notesStmt>
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<change when="2001-01-01" type="metadata">Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo &amp; John Young</change>
<change when="2011-09-29" type="metadata">Catalogue exported to teiHeader by <name>Michael Hawkins</name></change>
    <change when="2017-05-14">Transcribed by <name>Will Scott</name></change>
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    <pb xml:id="p409r" n="409r"/><fw type="pag" place="bottomLeft">409</fw>
    
    <p xml:id="par1"><handShift new="#in" scribe="Isaac_Newton"/>96<del type="over">3</del><add place="over" indicator="no">2</add> Hercules &amp; Euryst<supplied reason="damage">h</supplied>eus bron. 99<del type="over"><unclear reason="del" cert="high">9</unclear></del><add place="over" indicator="no"><unclear reason="del" cert="high">9</unclear></add> <add place="infralinear" indicator="no">1002</add> Andromeda stole 958 Perseus Dyes.</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par2">94<del type="over"><unclear reason="del" cert="low">5</unclear></del><add place="over" indicator="no">4</add> Euristheus reigns.</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par3">978 Alcmena the <del type="over">d</del><add place="over" indicator="no">g</add>randedaughter of Perseus &amp; Palops born.</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par4">100<choice><orig>2<add place="supralinear" indicator="no">4</add></orig><reg>4</reg></choice> Andromeda stole: <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no"><unclear reason="over" cert="low">1</unclear></add>00<del type="strikethrough">4</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">3</add> Electrio born of Perseus &amp; Andromeda. 97<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no"><unclear reason="over" cert="low">8</unclear></add><choice><orig><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">081</add></orig><reg/></choice> Alcmena born of Electrio &amp; <lb xml:id="l1"/>Euridice the daughter of Pelops. <choice><orig>962<add place="infralinear" indicator="no">964</add></orig><reg>964</reg></choice> Hercules <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">&amp; Euristheus</add> born. 958 Perseus dies. <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><unclear reason="hand" cert="low">Sthenelus</unclear> <unclear reason="hand" cert="high">reigns</unclear>.</add>. 944 Eure<gap reason="damage" unit="chars" extent="3"/>era rei<supplied reason="damage">gn</supplied>s. 927 Eurystheus <lb xml:id="l2"/>slain by Hyllus.</p>
    
    <p xml:id="par5">1044 <del type="strikethrough">Gorgophone</del><add place="supralinear" indicator="no">Danae</add> bo<del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">r</add>n. 128 Perseus born <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="2"/></p>
    
    <p rend="indent10" xml:id="par6"><handShift new="#und" scribe="Clerical_Hand"/><hi rend="largest">Our</hi> <hi rend="large">Will and pleasure is and We</hi> do hereby authorise and <lb xml:id="l3"/>command You <choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r</hi>.</abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> Isaac Newton Master and Worker of Our Mint in the <lb xml:id="l4"/>Tower of London to receive into Our said Mint from time to time fine British <lb xml:id="l5"/>Copper in barrs or Fillets which when hammered</p>
    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par7">to receive into our Mint</p>
    <p rend="indent0" xml:id="par8">to receive into our <hi rend="italic">Mint</hi> <space dim="vertical" unit="lines" extent="1"/></p>
    
    <p xml:id="par9"><handShift new="#un" scribe="Unknown_Hand"/>Youth and Age one Compared to his <supplied reason="damage" cert="low">Majestys</supplied> <unclear reason="damage" cert="medium">Mint</unclear></p>
    
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    <p xml:id="par10"><handShift new="#in" scribe="Isaac_Newton"/>It is hereby agreed between <choice><abbr>S<hi rend="superscript">r.</hi></abbr><expan>Sir</expan></choice> Is. Newton <choice><abbr>Kn<hi rend="superscript">t</hi></abbr><expan>Knight</expan></choice> <choice><abbr>M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Master</expan></choice> &amp; <choice><abbr>W<hi rend="superscript">r</hi></abbr><expan>Worker</expan></choice> of his <choice><abbr>Ma<hi rend="superscript">ts</hi></abbr><expan>Majestys</expan></choice> Mint <add place="lineEnd" indicator="no">of the</add> <lb xml:id="l6"/><add place="supralinear lineBeginning" indicator="yes"><choice><unclear reason="copy">sam</unclear><unclear reason="copy">on</unclear></choice>e <unclear reason="hand" cert="medium">part</unclear></add> <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="2"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">&amp;</add> Henry Hin<del type="over">d</del><add place="over" indicator="no">e</add>s of Farringdon Ward without <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes"><del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">F</add>ounder</add> &amp; <choice><orig>I</orig><reg>J</reg></choice>ohn Appleby Iu<hi rend="overline">n</hi> of the same ward <lb xml:id="l7"/>Brasier<gap reason="damage" unit="chars" extent="2"/> <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">of the other <gap reason="damage" unit="chars" extent="3"/>th</add> that the Copper imported <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">by the said Hen. &amp; <choice><orig>I</orig><reg>J</reg></choice>ohn</add> into his <choice><abbr>Maj<hi rend="superscript">ts</hi></abbr><expan>Majestys</expan></choice> Mint for coining of Copper money <lb xml:id="l8"/>shall be of such a fineness as to beare the assay which has been made of two <del type="strikethrough"><unclear reason="del" cert="medium">grains</unclear></del> <lb xml:id="l9"/>short barrs of Copper market (both of them) with the stamps H. <unclear reason="hand" cert="medium">I</unclear> &amp; C. AP. <add place="supralinear" indicator="yes">&amp; kept by M<hi rend="superscript">r</hi> Brattle Assayma<supplied reason="copy">ster</supplied></add> <del type="over"><gap reason="illgblDel" unit="chars" extent="1"/></del><add place="over" indicator="no">&amp;</add> that no <lb xml:id="l10"/>finer Copper shall be required.</p>
    
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