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And indeed to say that Mr Newton then understood not second fluxions is all one as to say that he understood not how to consider motion or as a quantity increasing & decreasing.

11. In the last coinage of Copper money an hundred per an̄ for six year together made a great [clamour aming the people & a] complaint in Parliament whereby the coynage was stopt for a year by reason of too great a quantity of copper money & after the coynage of another hundred Tunns the nation was fully stockt for the next five or six years. So that six or seven hundred Tunns is abundantly sufficient to stock the nation & a coynage of 1500 Tunns in five years time is not practicable by reason of the clamours it would make among the people. At present there wants not above a 100 Tuns in all

32. Copper of 10d per £wt is too coarse. And there is no assay proposed by which the goodnes of the Copper may be known. A specimen is not sufficient.

43. The casting drawing cutting flatting Scouring nealing blanching & dying cannot be performed for 25£ per Tonn. And there is nothing set down for the Graver & Smith.

54. Eleven pounds per Tonn for putting away is too much

65. There is nothing set down for providing coyning Tools

76. If the copper should be so coarse & the coynage so cheap & 1500 Tonns be coined as in the proposal a pound weight should not be cut into 20d. But the money Should be coyned as neare as can be conveniently to the intrinsic value.

27. If a pound weight be cut into 20d, a Tonn in coyn will amount only to 186£. 13. 4. It must be cut into 21d that a Tonn may make 205. 6. 8. But the copper money should be coyned to the intrinsic as near as can be conveniently

88.He that assayes sizes & coyns the Copper money should not be impowered to make any profit by coyning it too light or too coarse & therefore should have nothing to do with buying the copper or distributing it to the people but should only receive it by weight & assay & deliver it back in money by weight & assay & have it in his power to refuse bad copper. The proper assay for Copper is by hammering it when red hot & bending it when cold & observing the grain in breaking as is done at the Copper Mills.

99. My Lord Treasurer is desirous to have the money of fine copper, & if be of the same fineness with the Copper money of Sweden, the Copper must be made into filleths at the Battering Mills. For Copper of that degree of fineness will not be manufactured by casting.

139s. 4d. 1s. 4£ = 5s. 16ll = 1£. 93. 6. 8 6. 19. 4 46.      139. 6. 8

is Analysis & in his book of Quadratures & still uses it in the same manner as formerly & as it is the oldest notation so it is the best, the method there{illeg} being more Geometrical & more elegant then the Differential & as universal. T{illeg}

And whereas the great Mathematician represents that Mr Newton uses the letter o in the vulgar manner which destroys the advantages of the Differential method: he uses it & has used it ever since the writing of his Analysis in such a manner as makes his method more beautiful more geometrical & more advantageous then the differential & (by joyning the methods of Series & fluxions together) much more universal. The Differential Method is nothing else then the method of Tangents published by Mr in the year 1668 & by Dr. Barrow in the year 1670, disguised by changing Dr Barrows symbols a & e into dy & dx, improved by the instructions which Mr Leibnitz received by the Letters of Mr Newton, & taken from them by pretending that Mr L. found it long before he did . For in his Letter dated 21 Jul 1677 he pretended to have found it jam a multo tempore & yet he had not found it the year before. For in his Letter dated 27. Aug. 1676 he wrote that there were many Problems which could not be reduced to Equations or Quadratures such as were those of the inverse method of Tangents & may others. This method without the use of the letter o is not demonstrative, without the method of Series is not universal nor had any advantages which are not to be found in Mr Newtons. And thus much in answer to the great Mathematician