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]
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To the Rt Honble Sidney Lord Godolphin Lord High Treasurer of England.
May it please yor Lordp
Vpon renewing the Indenture of the Mint I humbly propose to give the following security to her Majesty vizt
Isaac Newton Es | 2000 |
Tho. Hall Es | 1000 |
Iohn Fauquier Gent | 1000 |
The acceptance of wch is most humbly desired & submitted to yor Lordships great wisdome
Is. Newton
Source
MINT 19/1/65, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK20 August 1702, c. 68 words.