Holograph draft of MINT00623 (Mint 19/2/308)

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The last winter Autumn I laid before yor Lordp a Memorial wherein to the best of my memory wherein I represented that if Copper worth 1011$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ per lwt could be wrought into money by casting, the Copper & Coinage the wthout edging the money would amount unto 17$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ per lwt, & allowing 2$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d more for the charge of putting off, buying & setting up coyning tools, repaing {sic} the buildings, building furnaces, paying Clerks. & a Comptroller, & other incidents, the wohole would amount unto 20d pr lwt. And after so much was coyned as was sufficient to supply the defect of what {illeg}money was wanting at present, the surplus o wch I recconed might be about 100 Tunns, the surplus above all charges {illeg}if there were any, might be paid into ye Excheque{illeg}r. And in the next coynage after a copper Mint was set up the money might be made heavier. But by further experience it appeared afterwards that such Copper could not be wrought by casting, but must be cut wrought into barrs at the battering Mills.

I now beg leave to represent to yor Lordp that in my humble opinion the best method of coyning such barrs into money, is to receive the same by weight {illeg}& assay giving bills to the Importers & taking back the bills upon delivering the same weight of copper in scissel & money together the Importers paying for the coynage of the money {illeg}by the pound weight a certain se{illeg}igniorage by ye pound weight for the coynage of the money to be accounted for by the Mr & Worker. The the Moneyers demand 2$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d pr lwt {illeg} for their work & {illeg} without edging the moneys, & it will cost $\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d per lwt to the Graver & Smith & a Clerk, in all 3d per lwt byesides the allowance to ye Master or his Deputy & such other Officers as shall be appoined & besides the repairs of the buildings & charge of the coyning tools.to be accounted for {illeg}by the Master & Worker. And That the {illeg}Importers will expect about 17d pr lwt fo above the seigniorage above for their copper & workmanship & the putting off the copper money. And that the Moneyers insist upon 2$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d for their work & it will cost $\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$ per lwt to the Graver & {illeg}Smith & a Clerk, in all 3d per lwt to be paid out of the Seigniorage besides the allowance to ye Master or his Deputy & such other Officers as shall be appointed & besides the repairs of the buildings & charge of the coining too{illeg}ls.

All wch &c

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I had almost forgot to observe that Mr Leibnitz himself either wrote or set on foot the writing of the papers I have hitherto been answering. He He pretendinedg that he {illeg}Had not having seen the Commerc. {illeg} notr being was at leasure {sic} himself or is pretended {illeg}b{illeg}to examin ye matter desired the a great Mathematician to examin the matterdo it & sent of the Commerium Epistolicum & received& sent his {illeg} his answer dated 7 Iune 16713 & sent it to his corresp{illeg}ondent to be published in Germany & his correspondent published it with many reflexions{illeg}, but wthout any proof. He {illeg}He preten And the same or another of his correspondents wrote the who wrote th And in the Remarks its pretended that that the {illeg}Society had woh Mr Leibnitz ha{illeg}d not yet sent his complaint th{illeg} (that is, the reasons of it) to ye Society [so that the Society has not bee {sic} able to at all to examin the arguments on both sides & to p] not doubting but the Society & Mr Newton himself would entirely disapprove such a proceedings: So that the Society has not been able at all to examin the arguments on both sides & to pronounce a definitive sentence.

10s in 12 year 2gr 40s in 192 years. Ab Happarch{illeg}o ad Ptolomeum 265 an Interest answerable to 732 an = 1gr.

				{illeg}1797			1827			22.	22$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$
	Happarcho			Ricciolo			Flamst 1690
Lucida Cathedræ Cassiopeiæ	0.	5.	{illeg}10	{illeg}1.	0.	22	{illeg}1.	40.	48	25.	38
Caput Medusæ Algol	0.	27.	0	1.	0		1.	21.	50$\frac{\mathrm{2}}{\mathrm{3}}$	24.	450$\frac{\mathrm{2}}{\mathrm{3}}$
Oculus Tauri	1.	10.	40				2.	5.	37	24.	47
Regel	1.	18.	10				2.	12.	30	24.	20
Capella	1.	22.	20				2.	17.	31$\frac{\mathrm{2}}{\mathrm{3}}$	25.	12
Orionis humerus dexter	1.	29.	20				2.	24.	25	25.	5
Sirius	2.	15.	0				3.	9.	49	24.	49
Procyon	2.	26.	50				3.	21.	30$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{3}}$	24.	40
Regulus	3.	29.	50				4.	25.	31$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$	25.	4{illeg}1$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$
Spica	5.	24.	0				6.	19.	21$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$	25.	21$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$
Arcturus	5.	24.	40				6.	19.	543. 52	25.	14
Cor Scorpij	7.	10.	0				8.	5.	26	25.	26
Aquilæ lucida	9.	31.	10				9.	27.	23	26.	13
Alœ Pegasi ultima Algenib	11.	9.	30				0.	4.	50	25	20
Persei lucidum latus	1.	2.	10				1.	27.	46	25.	36
Cauda Leonis	4.	21.	50				5.	17.	19	25.	29
Fomahaut	10.	4.	40				10.	29.	29	24.	49

I had almost forgot to observe that Mr Leibnitz himself