MINT00411: Requests a bonus payment for his work in assisting the commissioners: his Edinburgh Mint salary is only £40 p.a

Author: Millar, Robert

Metadata: Before 10 August 1708, c. 227 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/194, 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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MINT00414: Correspondence between Newton and James Mountague [Queen's Counsel] regarding the Edinburgh Mint's finances

Author: Newton, Isaac, Mountague, James

Metadata: November - December 1708, c. 309 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/8, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00415: Petition of the Committee of the Royal Boroughs, requesting that £8,000 worth of as yet uncoined metal be struck in 2d., 3d. and 4d. pieces

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 14 December 1708, c. 219 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/38, 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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MINT00417: Draft of MINT00416 (Mint 19/3/74)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 28 December 1708, c. 657 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/129, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01969: Draft of MINT00416 (Mint 19/3/74)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 28 December 1708, c. 573 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/130, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01970: Draft of MINT00416 (Mint 19/3/74)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 28 December 1708, c. 417 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/154, 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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MINT00434: Assessment of the poundage due to the Edinburgh master

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 1709-10, c. 1,067 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/148, 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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MINT00422: Asks permission for the London moneyers to go home as the recoinage is finished

Author: Drummond, William

Metadata: 12 March 1709, c. 229 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/127, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01215: Copy of letter concerning the recalling of moneyers from Her Majesty's Mint in Scotland

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 14 Mar 1708/9, c. 155 words.

Source: MINT 1/8/154, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00427: Recommendations for sorting out the Edinburgh Mint's expenses

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: Summer 1709, c. 637 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/166, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00423: Another petition for extra payment [see MINT00411 (Mint 19/3/194)], probably enclosed with MINT00425 (Mint 19/3/123)

Author: Millar, Robert

Metadata: Before 28 June 1709, c. 391 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/120, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00424: Clerical copy of MINT00423 (Mint 19/3/120)

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: Before 28 June 1709, c. 381 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/135, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Media

Manuscript

Category

Accounts and Expenses11
Copper Coinage1
Correspondence73
Economic Theory and Legislation1
Edinburgh Mint
Non-Newtonian Documents5
Personnel and Administration4
Pyx Trials and Analyses of British Coinage5

Author

Newton, Isaac140
Scott, Hercules4
Lowndes, William (Secretary to the Treasury)4
Duke of Lauderdale4
Unknown4
Gregory, David4
Drummond, William3
Taylour, Joseph2
Millar, Robert2
Edinburgh Mint2
Clark, James (Edinburgh engraver and die-sinker)2
Scott, Patrick2
Ogilvy, James (Earl of Seafield, Lord Chancellor of Scotland)2
Allardes, George2
Stanhope, Charles (Secretary to the Treasury)1
Stanley, John1
Mountague, James1
Brown, George1
Boswell, William1
Montgomerie, John (Master of the Edinburgh Mint)1