Holograph draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00727">MINT00727</ref> (Mint 19/3/537) Isaac Newton c. 823 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 [Before 31 July 1714 (Queen Anne's death).], c. 823 words. 'Considerations about selling the tin' [MINT 19/3/537] MINT 19/3/550, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/3/550 [Before 31 July 1714 (Queen Anne's death).] England English Latin Holograph Unknown Hand MintTin Trade 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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The surest method for setting a price upon the Tynn at Amsterdam is to know the price of the Tynn in the market of Amsterdam at any certain time & the course of yethe Exchange at that time & thence to compute the price by the course of the Exchange at this present time.

When yethe LdLord TrearerTreasurer Godolphin set the price at 4412 G.Gilders per 100 wtweight Dutch, the price in the market was from 45 to 47 G.Gilders as I find by Mr Drummonds Letter; & his LopLordship abated half a Gilder to make room for the varying of the Exchange. At that time the Exchange was at 34ss 6d. Tis now at 35ss 10d. And as 34ss 6d to 35ss 10d so is 45 G.Guilders (the lowest price in the market at that time) to 46G. 15st the lowest price in the market suitable to the course of the Exchange at this time. This price answers to 4li 3s 5d per Ccwt wtweight English.

Last summer when the Exchange came down to 34ss or under, the lowest price of the Tinn in the market was 4412 GGilders. And at that rate the lowest price now ought to be 46G 15st or 47G.. And this price answers to 4li. 3s. 6d, or 4li. 4s. per Ccwt wtweight English. In the AcctAccount lately drawn up by me, the price came to 4li. 5s. 8d per Ccwtwt English. But to bring it to the lowest price of the market some abatements must be made. A Dutch Commission for buying Tynn at yethe Tower was there put at 9d per Ccwt wtweight whereas the Dutch in times of peace will not value it at 3d can have their buisiness done by the Pewterers for 6d. Insurance at sea was there put at 9d Wwhereas the Dutch in times of peace will not value it at 3d. Interest for two months forbearance of payments was put at 9 st.stivers per 100wt Dutch, whereas the Dutch who can borrow money at 4 prper cent will reccon it but at 6 st.stivers per 100wt. And freight was put at 313 st.stivers per 100 wtweight whereas the Dutch can have Tynn brought home upon their own bottoms sometimes at half that price sometimes for ballast. If upon all these accounts about 14d per Ccwt wtweight be abated the remaining price will be about 4li 4s 6d per Ccwt wtweight. And further there must be an abatement out of the Duties paid in Holland, wchwhich in the said AcctAccount amounted to 1 Gilder 556 stivers per 100wt. For a Dutchman usually usually contrives to have his Tynn put on board several ships for lessening the charge of freight, & to run as much of it as he can, & what they cannot run they endeavour by their acquaintance to get taxed low. And I know not what abatement to make for these practises. If only 6d be abated per Ccwt wtweight, the remaining price will be 4li. 4s. per Ccwt wtweight; if 1s, it will be 4li. 3s. 6d. By all these recconings the lowest price of Tynn per 100wt Dutc in yethe Dutch markets should answer to 4li 3s 6d or 4li. 4s. per Ccwt wtweight English. For I know not how to be more exact in this slippery recconing where the uncertainties secrets & mysteries of trade cannot be brought to a certainty recconingty. Out of this price a deduction is to be made of one per cent Commission; one prper cent prompt paymtpayment, one per cent Insurance of paymtspayments if the Queen insures, 13 per cent Brokerage, 16 per cent carriage to the city weighouse & weighing for sale, 12 per cent City Duty at the weigh house, 15 prper cent Warehouse room: in all 415 per cent of 3s 6d prper Ccwt wtweight. And the remaining price will be 4li, or 4li. 0s. 6d clear of all charges, except what shall be allowed for returning the money for wchwhich the Tynn isshall be sold. For Mr Beranger insisted upon 5d per Ccwt wtweight for turning specie money into Banck money & making returns. In the discourse betwwen Mr Beranger & me he proposed to sell the Tynn himself by his Agents & pay the produce clear of all charges to his LordpsLordships Order, & account for the same before an Auditor provided he could have good vouchers. And he is still willing to undertake this Considering the great quantity of the Tynn, & that Mr Beranger does not live in Holland as Mr Drummond did an Agent when ever it shall be thought fit, may be sent into Holland to oversee the Sales & Accounts & Tynn remaining & keep a recconing thereof & perhaps have one of the keys to each Ware house where the Tynn is laid up to be sold till it shall begin to be sold out of that warehouse.