MINT00373: Holograph draft query as to whether the Queen cannot empower the master of the Edinburgh Mint to employ moneyers at his own discretion and on his own terms, as the master of the London Mint does
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: May 1707, c. 103 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/174, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00359: The articles ordered for the Edinburgh Mint have been embarked, all except the weights and seals, as authorisation to mark the weights has not yet been given: request for such authorisation
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 26 May 1707, c. 236 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/97, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00360: If pyx trials are to continue to be conducted in Scotland as the Lord Chancellor of Scotland wishes, new gold and silver trial pieces should be made and allotted to the English and Scottish Mints and Treasuries and to the Goldsmith's Company
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 31 May 1707, c. 773 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/190, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00171: Order to send officers to the London Mint for a pyx trial on Monday 28 July, to be attended also by officers from York, Exeter, Bristol, Chester and Newcastle
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: c. June 1707, c. 355 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/237, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
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