MINT00365: Royal warrant to George Allardes [Allardyce, Allardice, master of the Edinburgh Mint] to coin crowns, half-crowns, shillings and sixpences in the proportion 20: 30: 40: 10, as in England, using London tools, and inscribing the letter E on each coin
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 20 June 1707, c. 313 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/42-3, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00368: Holograph draft of Treasury warrant to John Stanley [London warden] to have two sets of check weights made, one for London and one for Edinburgh. Followed by a series of calculations
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: c. 25 June 1707, c. 215 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/150, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00376: As the English recoinage was 'troublesome expensive and liable to abuse & gross abuses were actually committed in it', recommends various procedures to avoid a recurrence in Scotland. Possibly in reply to MINT00374 (Mint 19/3/110)
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: August? 1707, c. 1,130 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/160, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00377: On equipment still needed by the Edinburgh Mint, especially crown and half-crown puncheons, which are to be sent overland as this is the quickest way
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: August 1707, c. 614 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/78, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK