Submits draft designs for new George I coins

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

I understand that the money is intended to be coyned according to the forms expressed in the annexed Draughts. The Inscriptions, the Arms of Hannover, & the Crown about that Escutcheon, are drawn only in black lead, that if any thing be amiss it may be wiped out & amended without spoiling the draughts. And because these parts of the Draughts may be wiped out & changed it will be convenient that they be described in words at length in the Warrant: to which Warrant these Draughts (if they be approved) are to be annexed. If these Draughts are to be amended or any other Draughts made to be laid before the King in Council it shall be speedily done.✝ < insertion from lower down f 285r > The Warrant uses to be grounded on an Order of Council. And in the Warrant it should be exprest that the five pound pieces, the forty shillings pieces the twenty shillings pieces & the tenn shillings pieces of Gold are to be coyned after the forms depicted in the two uppermost figures; the Crowns half Crowns, shillings & sixpences after the forms depicted in the two figures next below. And the Groats, Three-pences, two pences, & pence on the head side after the form of the larger silver moneys with this inscription GEORGIVS DEI GRATIA & on the Revers after the forms depicted in the four figures blow, with this inscription MAG. BR: FR. ET. HIB. REX &c. 1714 < text from f 285r resumes > In the Draughts for the small money the inscription about the Head is proposed to be GEORGIVS. DEI. GRATIA. And about the Reverse MAG. BRI. FR. ET. HIB. REX &c 1714. If in any of these Draughts the work prove too much crouded, it may be mended hereafter by a new Warrant. For I fear that the arms of Hannover will scarce be distinct upon the half Guineas & sixpences.

All which is most humbly submitted to your

Lordships great Wisdome

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Is. Newton