Request for a Trial of the Pix

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of His Majesties Treasury

May it please your Lordships

In order to make up my Accounts of the Coynage
of copper moneys & pay the ballance thereof into the Exchequer, I humbly pray your Lordships that a Tryall of the Pixes of that Coynage may be appointed.

Which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great

wisdome

Isaac Newton

Mint Office
18 Octob. 1722.

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<text in Unknown Hand begins>Sir Is Newton Memorial

18th 8br 1722

Mr Powys to be present on the part of the Treasury at this Tryal