The Mint has room to store over 2,000 tons of tin without interfering with coinage work
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To the Right Honourable the Lord High Treasurer of England.
May it please your Lordship
Vpon reviewing the Mint I find that there is room for coyning twenty thousand pounds a week of silver & eighty thousand pounds a week of gold & at the same time lodging above two thousand Tunns of Tinn without bringing any Tin into the Rooms of the Gold & Silver
All which &c
Is. Newton
Source
MINT 19/3/560, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKc. October 1703, c. 76 words.