Draft of MINT00647 (Mint 19/2/455)

Author: Newton, Isaac

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To the Rt Honble the Ld Commrs of his Maties Treasury.

May it please yor Lordp

In answer to the Memorialists Mr Briggs & Mr Nicholson, I humbly represent, that I as often as they have applied to me I have told them that without a Warrant from the King I could not receive copper in blanks nor coin money with round edges for the people; & that without your Lorps Warrant I could not deliver Cutters to them. {illeg} I have told ym also that Mr Appleby & Mr Hines having all things ready for a triall were to coin their five T{illeg}ons first; & that when I was ready for the Memorialists I would give them notice, but it would take up som{illeg}e time first to prepare the Mint for a triall. There is no difficulty in rounding the edges of the blanks, & I have not delivered another cutter to Mr Appleby & Mr Hines nor are they Contractors but at discretion. Nor have theirre been any delays but for want of authorityWarrants wch the Memoreal{illeg}ists should have procured instead of applying for aWarrants have given themselves a great deal of trouble in solliciting me to act without them & have built furnaces And if the Memorialists have built furnaces & {sic} prepared a sufficient quantity of Copper ready for the cutters & been at sufficient charges in preparing the same, they have done it contrary to my advice rashly & & in opposition to the notice wch I gave them that Mr Appleby & Hines were to have the first & without staying for sufficient authority & {illeg} make {illeg} & in opposition to the notice wch I gave them that Hines & Appleby were & can blame no body but themselves if they should lose their charges. These things being facts evince the complaints in the Memorial to be fals & treacherousperverse & may excuse me from thinking any further of this tryall {illeg} till the Memorialists bring me sufficient Warrants. Mr Nicholson is a Pewterer & understands nothing of this matter but what his partner teaches him. Mr Briggs is a dealer in Barbary copper {illeg}is a dealer in Barbary copper & understands not how to refine copper but may hire others. They but must hire the refining work out & is a dealer in Barbary copper still he can {illeg} And they they have both told me that they shall lose by this trial, & therefore by consequence that it will not be a fair {illeg} uon an equall foot {illeg}foot between the competitors.

ButBut if the Memorialists instead of applying for Warrant have given themselves a great deale of trouble in solliciting me to act without them, & in opposition to be the notice wch I gave them that Appleby & Hines being ready should have the first tryall, they have built furnaces & prepared a sufficient quantity of copper ready for the Cutters & been at {illeg}charges in preparing the same; they have done it contrary to my advice & without staying for sufficient authority & can blame no body but themselves if they should lose their charges for acting in this {illeg} manner. These things are facts & may suffice to shew that the accusations in the Memorial are fals & malitious.

{illeg}All The coinage of the Gold & silver is performed by people under my direction that I may be because I am accountable for {illeg}the by people who do not oppose me weight & fineness, & [if the copper be coined in the same manner I shall be able to perform itthis coinage the better., & And as this is suitable to the Kings Warrant by which I act {illeg}& wchhich makes me accountable. so thatAnd that those who deal in copper may not be too much discouraged from serving me I humbly pray that Mr Hines Appleby & Mr Hines may be allowed to prepare & import theat Copper at least wch they have begun to work upon.] his Mats Warrant for t{illeg}he coining of copper money makes me accountable also for this sort of coinage. And that th{illeg}is {illeg}the value there {illeg}of To do it of the finest fine copper is a manufactur never before set up in England. & I have met wth great difficulties in setting it up in the cheapest manner for want of time to try experiments before I began. For removing the main difficulties I perswaded Mr Appleby & Mr Hines to rend a water mill a horse mill being too weak & the difficulties are in a great measure removed, & those that remain will be <441v> more easily removed by people under my direction then by such as do oppose meare not {illeg} not regain me. {sic}. To be concerned in this sort of coinage I never desired but it falls to my lot. And things are upon such a foot that I can get nothing but discredit by coyning the money ill. [In the reign of K. Cha. II the Blanks were made in Swedeland where work is cheap, & a pound weight of Copper was cut into 20d. In the reign of King William the copper was worth about 88d pr lwt & the {illeg} a pound weight is nowweighwas at {sic} cut into 21d12 wth a remedy of almost a penny. In the reign of {illeg}K {illeg}Wm a pound {illeg} was cut into {illeg}& the blanks were made by casting wch is Easy & cheap but cannot be done in fine copper. The Copper is now worth about 13d34 per lwt & a pound wt is cut into 23d whereof 112d is reserved to ye public only 21d12 is allowed for copper {illeg}& {illeg} remedy workmanship.] I am upon trying how the Moneyers can neale & clean the blanks. And if yor Lordps please to give one leave to go on wth Mr Hine Appleby & Mr Hines till they h{illeg}ave finished prepared & imported the Copper that they have begun to work upon I h{illeg}ope I shall by that time be able to give yor Lordps a better account the state of this coinage.] And therefore I humbly pray that it may remain in my power to dismiss those that do not serve me well.] I am {illeg}now trying how if instead of nealing the & pcleaning the Copper in the barrs the moneyers{illeg} can neale & clean the copper in the blanks learn to neale & clean it as wellas well a way as through sufficiently in the bla{illeg}nks. And if your Lordps please to suffer m{illeg}e to go on wth Mr Hines Appleby & Mr Hines untill this {illeg}this d{illeg}iff{illeg}iculty is over, I shall then be able to giv [& untill they have also coined their complement {illeg}of farthings: I will then lay this matter the state of this coinage again anew before your Lordps.] & they have also coyned the copper wch they have already manufactured {illeg} &

And if any faulty peices {sic} escape them we rece

TIn the last coinage of copper moneys the copper was worth about 8d per lwt [the blanks were made by casting wch is an east & cheap work, the] copper is {illeg}now worth about 13d34 per lwt & the & a p{illeg}ound weight was cut into 2112d wth an addition of almost a penny more under the name of a remedy At po The copper is now worth [{illeg}abou{illeg}t 1312d & yet a pound wt is cut only into] between 1312 & 14d & the coinage is b{illeg} & yet a pound weight is cut only into 23d with a {illeg} whereof a    {illeg} p{illeg} three half pence is reserved to ye governmen{illeg}t.

These

And for putting a stop to these

They complain of me fo Instead of applying {illeg} They complain of me f {sic} & now complain of me for not acting without warrants.

For setting this matter {illeg}putting an end to these {illeg}ments this matter I {illeg}humbly pr{illeg}ay that yor Lordps will be pleased still to suffer {sic}allow me to try & to receive or reject any man's copper wheich shall bring to me the finest copper & {illeg}but prepared manufactured & to refuse any mans copper who& to upon examination receive or reject it accordingly as I shall find it finer or courser {sic} & better or worse prepared & to g{illeg}o on with Appleby & Hines in the first place till they commit another fault least {illeg} I can meet with better workmen willing to serve me, & to referr to such a trial those people finally to me who now complain [& {sic}And because the refining wth seacoale is not a new invention {illeg}to the sulphureous fumes of the seacoal sometimes dammage the copper, I desire also I may have lea{illeg}ve hereafter to apply to your Lordps for a remedy if I find it necessary.] & whose copper I intend to coin in due time if I find it for f for the Mint. if they will

I ne{illeg}ver desired to

① In the last coinage of copper was worth about 7d12 or 8d per Lwt & a pound wt was cut into 2112d. The copper is now worth between 1312 & 14d per Lwt & the coinage is difficulter & more chargeable & better performed & yet the allowance for copper & coinage is the same as before a pound wt {illeg}is cuts only into 23d whereof {illeg} three half pence are reserved to the government. And aAll {illeg} wch have hitherto been {illeg}gtSo that about 5d per Lwt is sound of wha{illeg}t {illeg} al{illeg}lowed beforedeficiency in the goodness of deficiency in the goodness of the copper hitherto{illeg} complained of doth not amount to the 40th part of the whole value of the copper, wch is no more then the rRemedy allowed in weight, & there{illeg}fore would be within the Remedy to be allowed in fineness if the Assays were exact enough for setlingstating thissuch a remedy;. [& for this reason those complaints have been {illeg} understoodweighing & fr frivolous &] undiscerned{illeg}. {sic}. {sic} And as for the form of the moneys it is before every bodies eyes & ought not to be judged of by the faulty pieces {sic} faulty pieces. For the nature of coynage is such that {sic}

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The nature of coinage is such that amongst the new moneys newly coined there will be some fpieces fauly {sic} in form. It {illeg}always was & always will be so in the coinage of gold & silver, & the coinage of fine copper is more difficult. But {illeg}it {illeg}is the duty of the moneyers to pick out those faulty pieces as well as they can & I have caused half a Tunn of such {illeg} coyned moneys to be melted down again. And this has been the standing practise of the Mint time out of mind without any disparagement to the coynage of gold & silver. Because I am accountable for the coining of the gold & silver weight & fineness gold & silver moneys in weight & fineness, that coinage is performed by people under my direction. And his Mats Warrant has made me accountable also for the avlue of {illeg}the copper moneys according to the rules prescribed therein. To coin moneys of fine copper is a manufacture never before set up in England, & I have met with great difficulties in setting it up for want of time to try Expts & {illeg} the before I began. For removing the main difficulties I perswaded Mr Appleby & Mr Hines to rent a Copperwater mill, {illeg}a horse mill being too weak, & the difficulties are in a great measure removed. And those that remain will be more easily removed by people under my direction then by such as do not regard me. I cannot untdertake absolutely that there shall be no faulty barrs in the copper imported there shall be no faulty barrs wch may escape the essays {sic}, but I am safest in people that are afraid of me. To be concerned in this sort of coiange I never desired,: but it falls to my lot, And things are upon such a foot that I can get nothing but discredit by coyning the money ill. And if those that have served me hitherto be used too hardly, no body else will serve me. I am very willing to lend the Copper rooms in the Mint to any body whose {illeg}may be authorized to take care of this coinage & content my self wth the coiange of ye gold & seilver; but if it be your Lordps pleasure that I go on with it, I will take the best care I can to have it well performed, {sic} & they [untill the people be satisfied or yor Lordps authorizes me by a Warrant to stop.] And that Mr the Memorialists may not lose their charges I will coine the copper they have prepared if I find it fit for {illeg} to be coined. But I have notice that thesyd copperuse {illeg} Barbary copper & hire them refined in London & after such notice it will be requisite that they satisfy me in that matter. least I shoul least I should accused of coiningconniving at forreign copper after notice that it is forreign.

I humbly pray your Lordps therefore that I may go on in the method its wch is suitable to this Warrant & in wch I have hitherto acted, wch is by allowing me to try any mans copper & to receive or reject it accordingly as I find it finer or courser {sic}, & the manufacture better or worse prepared: & to go in with Appleby & Hine till I can meet wth better work men, & to referr the leave the Memorialists to such a trial.imploy imploy those who serve me best

To coin money of fine copper is a manufacture never before set up in England

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Six gravitas s{illeg} pondys corporis, si uniforms sit, & tempus in æquales nartes dividator singulis temporis particulis æqualiter agendo in corpus, mutationem nedlus tempon parportionale generabits æqualiter matum egus mutabit.

S{illeg}Vt si corporeis cadenteis, gravitas equs sit uniformes, {illeg}hæco singulis Kenpons particulis singulasæqualibus æqualiter agenda imprimet caries æquales in {illeg}coppus allud & singulus genelrabit velocitates æquales ad {illeg} et propteret vis tota in coprus eudens impressa & velocitas tota genita simper erif ut tempur totum sedendi [et contra si corpus dursum prjiciatur, gravitas contramadeordum tendems {illeg}velocitatem ascandendi diminut & diminutio velocitatis erit ut tempus ascendendi, et propterea tempus totum ascendid ad tentum summum erit ut velocitas tota quacum corpus sursum projicitur, {illeg}spateum {illeg}vultitus ver{illeg} ascensu toto descriptam {illeg}it ut velocitas2. & tempus conjunctim red est in dupli{illeg} retinue velocitatis] oritur ex velocitate ac tempore conjunctim] Et temporibus proportionalibus spatia descripta erunt ut velocitates ac tempora conjunctim, id est in duplicata ratione velocitatum tempo{illeg}rum.

Si corpus viribus certoripetis revolvantur quæ sunt reciproce ut cubi distantiarum a centr{illeg}o, docuit D. Cotes ordem invenire quem corpus describet, de loco dato data cum velocitate se{illeg}cundum datam rectam egressi