Coinage accounts 1713-1715

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An Account of the Gold & Silver coyned at his Maty's Mint in the Tower of London from Lady day 1713 to Lady day 1715, & of the Gold & Silver remaining in the Tower in order for coynage at Lady day 1715, & the Denominations & species in wch the said Gold & Silver were brought into the Tower.

From Lady {illeg}day 1713 to Lady day 1715 there were coyned 44179 pounds weight Troy of standard Gold, & 3899Lwt of standard silver. This Gold at 44$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ Guineas to the poun{illeg}d weight & 1li 1s 6d to the Guinea amounted in tale to 2113412li. 18s. 3d. And the silver at 3li 2s per Lwt to 12086li. 18s. 00d.

At Lady day 1715, there remained in the Tower to be coyned 64656464. 11. 2. 5 Lwt of standard Gold & 278. 4. 11 Lwt of standard silver. And this Gold at the rate abovementioned will make in tale {illeg}6309265, {illeg}. {illeg}17. 7 & the silver will make {illeg}862li. 1{illeg}9s. 0{illeg}6d.

The Gold above mentioned came to the Mint partly in the form of Portugal Barrs & partly in the form of Barrs or Ingots melted by the Goldsmiths in London. We account these Ingots to have been melted {illeg}out of forreign moneysout of forreign moneys (hose of France, Portugal, Holland, Germany &c), & sometimes out of Gold dust, or out of Iamaica Gold tuffened. {sic} or refined. But in or books we enter nothing more then the weight & as{illeg}say of every Barr or Ingot with the name of the Importer.

All The silver above mentioned has been extracted out of English Lead by a Corporation of Smelters mr Wright & Partners, & coames to us in the form of Ingots of fine silver, & under the denomination of English & Welsh Silver is stamped on the rReverse of the moneys with a proper mark to distinguish it from other silver moneys made of forreign silver.

R. S.

I. N.

M. B.

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A pound weight of fine Gold {illeg}is worth 15 pound weight of fine silver in France & 14∟43135115∟571{illeg}737 = 14$\frac{\mathrm{4}}{\mathrm{7}}$ {illeg} pound weight of fine silver in England according to law

And a Guinea is worth in France only 1li. 0s. 8$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$.

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All the Gold & Silver above mentioned came to ye Mint in the form of barrs & Ingots, s{illeg}ome of wch are were Portugal barrs & others were melted in London London Barrs melted by the Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of forreign gold moneys & gold dust & coarse Iamaica gold brought to them by the {illeg}Merchants the various denotminations & species of wch {illeg} are not entred in or bokoks. And all the siver {sic} above mentioned was extracted out of English Le{illeg}ad.

All the silver above mentioned was extracted out of English Lead, & all the Gold came to the Mint in the form of bBarrs or Ingots, some of which were Portugal bBarrs & others were bBarrs melted by the Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of forreign gold moneys, gold dust & coarse Iamaica gold, the various denominations & species of wch are not entred in our books.

<text in Unknown Hand begins>& all the gold came to ye Mint in ye forme of Barrs of Ingots great part whereof were{illeg}By their shape we do conceive to have been imported from Portugal Barrs in Barrs Ingots Barrs & the Rest were Barrs melted by ye Goldsmiths in London out of various sorts of Forreign Gold moneys chiefly french & Portugese.

<text in Isaac Newton’s hand begins>All the si{illeg}lver above mentioned was extracted out of Le English lea{illeg}d & all the gold came to ye Mint in the form of Barrs or Ingots the several denomination or species of wch are nowt entred in or books. But by the shape & assay of the Barrs we conceive great part thereof to have been imported from Portugal by the shape & fineness of thein Barrs & the rest to have been Barrs melted into barrs by the Goldsmiths in London {illeg} chiefly out of French out offrom various sorts of forreign moneysgold & &chie{illeg}fly from the moneys of Freanchh & Portugal moneys. before it came to the Tower