MINT00401: Report on the Edinburgh Mint's financial difficulties

Author: Drummond, William

Metadata: 27 March 1708, c. 324 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/133-4, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00406: Unfinished holograph draft of a covering letter forwarding MINT00404 (Mint 19/3/121), suggesting that the money needed should be found from coinage duty and from Stewart's executors

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: After April 1708, c. 157 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/142, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00704: Report on a new design of furnace in Cornwall for melting tin

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: April 1708, c. 815 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/546-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00402: Orders for payment of the sums mentioned in MINT00400 (Mint 19/3/161) and MINT00401 (Mint 19/3/133-4) have been rendered void by Stewart's death: requests a new order for payment by his executors

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 14 April 1708, c. 101 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/131, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00403: Proposed measures to be taken in the wake of Daniel Stewart's recent death. Presumably a variant of MINT00402 (Mint 19/3/131)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 14 April 1708, c. 365 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/46, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01173: Copy of Newton's response to the petition of Gabriel le Clerk

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 14 Apr 1708, c. 150 words.

Source: MINT 1/8/69, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01695: Letter to the Earl of Godolphin (Lord High Treasurer) concerning a proposal for recoining copper money

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: May 1708, c. 299 words.

Source: Ms. 361(2), f. 24r, New College Library, Oxford, UK

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MINT00497: The Earl of Derby [Governor of the Isle of Man] has asked for Manx currency to be coined in the Mint: Mint disapprove of coining foreign money, but see no objection to allowing the moneyers and engravers to make medals for him

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 25 June 1708, c. 171 words.

Source: MINT 19/2/456, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00953: Letter concerning the melting of money in Scotland into ingots

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 30 Jun 1708, c. 221 words.

Source: T 1/108.41, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00408: Petition for a pay rise

Author: Boswell, William

Metadata: 10 July 1708, c. 820 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/156-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00409: The continued refusal of Stewart's executors to hand over money owed to the Edinburgh Mint has left them unable to carry on their business. Begs Newton to sort the mess out: 'All the officers of the Mint depend very much upon you in this matter'

Author: Drummond, William

Metadata: 12 July 1708, c. 410 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/168-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00954: Letter concerning the melting of money in Scotland into ingots

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 4 Aug 1708, c. 222 words.

Source: T 1/108.41, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00412: Clarification of Millar's duties as assistant to the commissioners: encloses a copy of his petition [MINT00411 (Mint 19/3/194)]. Recoinage is proceeding satisfactorily

Author: Scott, Patrick

Metadata: 10 August 1708, c. 226 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/195, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00413: Petition for 1/2 % commission

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 28 September 1708, c. 349 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/162-3, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00416: Recommend the commissioners for coinage in Scotland be paid a total of £700 between them

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 28 December 1708, c. 255 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/74, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00426: Correspondence relating to Edinburgh Mint funding

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 1709, c. 447 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/164, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01217: Copy of request for an explanation of the state of the accounts of the late Master and Worker of the Edinburgh Mint and the need for a trial of the pix

Author: Taylour, Joseph

Metadata: 28 Jan 1709, c. 125 words.

Source: MINT 1/8/166, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00419: 'Memoriall from George Allardes Master of Her Majties Mint att Edinburgh to the honorable Sir Isaac Newton'

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: c. 12 February 1709, c. 846 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/177, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00420: Covering letter for a 'Memoriall' relating to various difficulties [MINT00419 (Mint 19/3/177)]

Author: Allardes, George

Metadata: 12 February 1709, c. 255 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/35, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00421: Reply to MINT00419 (Mint 19/3/177) and MINT00420 (Mint 19/3/35)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: c. March 1709, c. 655 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/44, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Media

Manuscript

Category

Accounts and Expenses75
Analyses of Foreign Coin and Exchange Rates26
Clippers, Coiners and Embezzlers57
Coin, Seal and Medal Design14
Copper Coinage44
Correspondence
Country Mints37
Economic Theory and Legislation34
Edinburgh Mint73
Gold and Silver Coinage16
Miscellaneous19
Non-Newtonian Documents8
Overseas Mints and Coinage15
Personnel and Administration46
Pyx Trials and Analyses of British Coinage23
Rights and Privileges of the Mint11
Technical2
The Mine at Alva16
Tin Trade36

Author

Newton, Isaac300
Lowndes, William (Secretary to the Treasury)43
Treasury21
Lord of Oxford & Earl Mortimer (Lord High Treasurer)10
Taylour, Joseph9
Harley, Thomas8
Halley, Edmond7
Unknown6
Stanhope, Charles (Secretary to the Treasury)5
Drummond, William5
Gregory, David4
Scott, Hercules4
Tilson, Chris4
Scrope, John (Treasury Secretary)3
Duke of Lauderdale3
Haynes, Hopton3
Chaloner, William3
Wood, William3
Southwell, Edward (Secretary of the Privy Council of Ireland)3
Stanley, John2
Allardes, George2
Ordnance Office2
B., P.2
Ogilvy, James (Earl of Seafield, Lord Chancellor of Scotland)2
Pinckney, Calverley (Deputy to the Warden of the Mint)2
Fowle, Thomas2
Povey, John2
Walpole, Robert2
Smithson, Henry1
Suffolk M.1
Stringer, H. H.1
Stacy, John1
Clark, James (Edinburgh engraver and die-sinker)1
Overton, Benjamin1
Earl of Godolphin (Lord High Treasurer)1
Barrow, Richard1
Blackborne, Robert1
Lords Justices1
Northey, Edward (Attorney General)1
M., M.1
Boswell, William1
Montgomerie, John (Master of the Edinburgh Mint)1
le Clerk, Gabriel (Graver of the Mint)1
William Wood and partners1
Kidder, V (Assay-Master in Ireland)1
Bradford1
Ellis, John1
Haldane, John1
Batchelor, John1
Dearsley, Thomas (Watchmaker)1
Delafaye, Charles (Undersecretary of State)1
Duke of Shrewsbury (Lord High Treasurer)1
Parry, Charles1
Neal, Noah1
Rokeby, Thomas1
Scott, Patrick1
Davies, Isaac1
Chamberlayne, John1
Cottrell, Clement1
Pigott1
Cox, Charles1
Walker, John1
Musgrave, Chris1
Comptroller1
Robinson, Thomas1
Peyton, Craven (Warden)1
Janssen, Theodore1
Sandford, Richard (Warden of the Mint)1
Anstis, John1
Kelsall, Henry1