"The Mintmaster's Report upon Mr Wood's Petition for importing Copper"

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury

May it please your Lordships

In Obedience to your Lordships Order of Reference that I should report my opinion upon the Petition of Mr William Wood for a Warrant to furnish the Mint with fine copper in barrs duly sized at 17$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{2}}$d per pound weight after the 30 Tunns agreed for at 18d per pound weight to be coined, I humbly represent that if Mr Wood will furnish the Mint with such copper, prepared by the battering Mills, as the specimen was which I had of him, I am ready to receive a Tonn or two every Month at that price till next Michaelmas, or longer if there be occasion. But if he intends to prepare it some other way, of which he has not yet given me a specimen I desire that a specimen of such work as he intends to furnish me with, may be sent into the Mint to be assayed before he begins to bring in a great quantity.

All which is most humbly submitted to your

Lordships

Mint Office
Decem. 12. 1717.

Isaac Newton.

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<text in Unknown Hand (1) begins>12 Decemr: 1717

The Mintmasters Report upon Mr Wood's Petition for importing Copper.

<text in Unknown Hand (2) begins>13th Decr 1717 read

My Lords agree to the Report

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