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Catalogue Entry: MINT00538

Proposal by a Mr Eyres of Southwark to melt down unserviceable brass guns from the Vigo booty and extract fine copper for the Mint

Author: Newton, Isaac

Commented on in NC, 7: 433 (no. X.672).

Professor Rob Iliffe (Faculty of History, University of Oxford) and Scott Mandelbrote (Fellow & Perne Librarian, Peterhouse, Cambridge).