Letter from Newton to the Treasury commissioners concerning personal sureties and the new Indenture of the Mint

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

May it please your Lordships

Vpon the passing of a new Indenture, I being to give security in 2000£ besides my own bond, I humbly propose for my sureties Mr Hall the Comptroller of the salt Office in a Bond of one thousand pounds & Dr Fauquier my Deputy in a Bond of another thousand pounds. [& pray that it may be referred to the proper Officers in the Exchequer Office to enquire into the sufficiency of these sureties.]

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships great           wisdome                                    Isaac Newton Mint Office 6 May 1718