MINT00039: Clerical copy of Treasury warrant dated 3 August 1680, requiring securities of £2,000 each from the three commissioners appointed on 15 July 1680, John Buckworth, Charles Duncomb [Duncombe] and comptroller James Hoare

MINT00037: £2,000 had been the customary security for the mastership until the previous incumbent, Thomas Neale, gave £15,000 to allay doubts raised by his somewhat dubious financial history

MINT00038: Another holograph draft of MINT00037 (Mint 19/1/64)

MINT01121: Copy of letter concerning the funds for rewarding the place of engineer

MINT00043: Copies of applications for the post of weigher and teller from Philip Shales, Charles Brattell, George Foord (deputy warden) and Thomas Edwards

MINT00044: Recommends Hopton Haynes for the post of weigher and teller, giving an account of his previous employment at the Mint (as a clerk) and elsewhere

MINT00045: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT01890: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT01891: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT01892: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT01893: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT01894: Draft of MINT00044 (Mint 19/1/121)

MINT00046: The £60 p.a. allowed for a master's assay master (as distinct from the royal assay master) has for a long time been paid to the deputy master, who has authority to examine the work of the royal assay master

MINT00047: Further to a petition from probationer engraver [Samuel] Bull, recommend raising his salary from £50 to £60 p.a. plus piece work

MINT00048: 'Articles made the 25th day of ffebruary [...] 1701 Between Isaac Newton Esqr Master and Worker of his Maties Mint of the one part And Phillip Shales of London Gen. on the other part'

MINT00049: Royal warrant authorising Newton to continue to act under the indenture of 23 December 1700 after William III's death, pending formulation of a new indenture.

MINT00050: Holograph draft of MINT00049 (Mint 19/1/416)

MINT00053: Holograph draft of bond for Newton's re-appointment as master

MINT00051: 'A Copy of the Patent of the Master & Worker of the Mint in the Tower of London'

MINT00052: Offers £4,000 security against renewal of his mastership: £2,000 himself and £1,000 each from Thomas Hall [master's assistant] and John Francis Fauquier [deputy master]