Draft of MINT00766 (Mint 19/3/286), both likewise dated 17 January 1714/5

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To the Rt Honble the Lords Commissioners of his Majties Treasury.

May it please yor Lordps

That the Arms in the fourth Escutcheon on the Reverses of the half Guineas & Sixpences may not be too much crouded I present your Lordships with the Designes hereunto annexed for {illeg}those Reverses, with most humble submission to yor Lordps great Wisdome

Isaac Newton

Mint Office.
17 Ian. 171$\frac{\mathrm{4}}{\mathrm{5}}$.

Having in a late Memorial signified to your Lordps that the Arms in the fourth Escutcheon may prove too much crouded on the Reverses of the sihalf Guineas & Sixpences: for ye remedy thereof for removing that difficulty I humbly present your Lordps with the Designes hereunto annexed for those Reverses, the same being {illeg}the suitable to the Arms His several parts {illeg} conformable to his chief parts of his Maties Arms proposed by the Earl Marshal & approved.being {illeg} in Court by his Maty in Council.with a & approved of. And I humbly desirepropose that the same may be laid before his Maty in Council for theirhis approbation {illeg}if it be thought fi{illeg}t.

All wch is most humbly submitted to yor Lordps great wisdo

I. N.