Request for an allowance not exceeding £36 for defraying the charged of a dinner for the jury at the Tryall of the Pix
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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury
May it please your Lordships
I humbly pray your Lordships Order for issuing out of the Coynage Duty any summ not exceeding thirty & six pounds for defraying the charges of a dinner for the Iury at the Tryall of the Pix & allowing the same in my Accounts.
All which is most humbly submitted to
your Lordships great wisdome
Isaac Newton
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Orders
36 for the Pix Feast
Source
T 1/205.19, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK21 Aug 1716, c. 85 words.