Memorandum on the French-English exchange rate alongside notes on Biblical chronology

<text in Unknown’s hand begins>Our Way of exchanging with france is by crowns pieces of 60 sols each; Our Bills are always drawn so without having any regard to what the Crowns go for in france.

Louis d'or go nowe in france for 12 Livres, 15 sols. which is 4 Crowns & 1/4 the Crown being of 60. sols as above.

The exchange between france & England has of Late been from 45d. to 44d.1/2 per crown and was done on munday Last at 44d.1/4.

if We compute a Louis d'or as the exchange was done on monday, and if we had then remitted money to france to have the returns in Louis d'or, as many Exchangers do Every post day, a Louis d'or brought over would have stood us but in 15ß 8d. 1/4.

and if the Exchange was Computed at 45d. per crown it would then stand but in 15ß 11d. 1/4.

<text in Isaac Newton’s hand begins>Pharaoh sought the life of Moses for killing an Egyptian, the Iews were in bondage under the Egyptians, the ten plagues fell on the Egyptians, the Egyptians were drowned in the red sea. Not one word in all the story of any other people then Egyptians & Israelites. And its further to be observed that the worship of the calf which Israel brought out of Egypt was not that of Arabians but that which the genuine Egyptians paid to their God Osiris. And that Pharaoh feared least upon any incursion of the Arabians Israel should help them & go with them out of the land (Exod. 1.10) & that And that as the Egyptians abominated shepherds in the days of Iacob & Ioseph, so they abominated the sacrifices of shepherds in the days of Moses Exod. 9.10. It was after this time theref. the Israel. came under the dom. of the shepherds.

Ætes at Colchos. For Hecate the wife of Æetis, & Cerces & Medea his daughters were so skillfull in the virtues of Plants & druggs for curing wounds & diseases & for poysoning & & doing other feats, that the Greeks accounted them witches & Sorceresses. And such skill in those ignorant ages would scarce have been found in Scythia had it not been brought from Egypt. And after the death of Iason when Medea had her choise to go whither she pleased she chose to go to Phœnicia a country next Ægypt whether a native Scythian woman would scarce chuse to travel. And Herodotus tells us by relation from the people of the kingdom of Persia that [] the Greeks carried away Medea from Colchos by way of requital for the carriage of Io the daughter Inachus from Greece into Ægypt, & that as they at Colchos had not been punished for the rapture of Io so neither should the Greeks be punished for the rapture of Medea.

– if to the 11 first kings we allow a reign of about 20 years a piece was about 70 years after the captivity of the ten tribes, vizt Cranaus the first King of Macedon

alowing their Kings a reign of about 20 years a piece one with another continued 80 years from James to the coming of Æneas into Italy, 300 years more to the building of Rome & 140 years more to the first Consul.

He reigned about the time of Solomon. For Herodotus tells us that the Persians relate that the Phœnicians were the first occasion of the discord between the Greeks & other nations, coming from the red Sea into the Mediterranean & making long viages with merchandizes from Ægypt & Assyria to Argos & other places they seized upon Io the daughter of Inachus with some other weomen of Argos who came to buy their merchandizes & carried them away into Ægypt. Afterwards some Greeks of Crete coming to Tyre in revenge carried away Europa the daughter of the King. And afterwards committed a second injury For sailing to Colchos they carried away Medea the kings daughter. And when they king of Colchos sent an Embassador to demand her back & that they who did the injury should be punished the Greakes answered that as they (vizt the Egyptians at Colchos) had not been punished for the rapture of Io so neither should the Greeks for that of Medea. The next age Alexander the son of Priam encouraged by these examples carried away Hellena & thereupon ensued the Trojan warr. Herod. l. 1. And Eusebius tells us that there flourished three Phœnician Historians Theodotus Hypsicrates & Mochus who all of them delivered in their Histories that under one certain King happened the rapture of Europa, the voyage of Menelaus into Phœnicia (vizt to seek Hellena) & the league of Hirome when he gave h is daughter to Solomon & furnished him with timber for the Temple. Euseb. Præp. l. 10. And Clemens Alexandrius: Hiram gave his daughter to Solomon <46v> at that time when Menelaus after the taking of Troy came into Phœnicia as Menander of Pergamus & Lætus relate in their Phœnician Histories. Clem. strom. l 1. p 326.

They staid long in Egypt (Manetho saith 511 years) & had various warrs with the Egyptians till Misphragmuthosis King of Thebes drave them out of all Egypt except Avaris or Pelusium where they walled in a place of ten thousand acres of land & shut them selves up. But Tethmosis Thumosis or Amosis the son of Misphragmuthosis besieged them with a great army & forced them to depart out of Egypt. After the manner of the ancient nations of Arabia they sacrificed man

The Israelites had been in Egypt 430 years & yet remained a distinct people so as not to be called Egyptians. And the shepherds also remained a distinct people till the Egyptians drave them out of Egypt. & by way of distinction were by the Egyptians called Hycsos that is Shepherd-kings. But in the story of Moses, Pharaoh & the king is called head his Captains & army & all his people except the Israelites are considered as one nation & called Egyptians without any distinction. And its further to be observed that the worship of the calf which Israel brought out of Egypt was not the religion of the Arabians but a worship which the genuine Egyptians paid to their God Osiris. Pharao feared least upon any incursion of the Arabians Israel should help them & go with them out of the land (Exod. 1.10) & that as every shepherd was an abomination to the Egyptians in the days of Ioseph so                                                    the sacrifices of the flocks & heards of the Israelites who were shepherds were an abomination to those Egyptians on whome Moses inflicted the ten plagues. Exod 8.26

Had Pharaoh & his captains been shepherds & forreigners as the Israelites were they would rather have releived the Israelites from the oppression of the conquered Egyptians then have joyned with the Egyptians in oppressing them.