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Suggests that the renovations proposed by the Ordnance [MINT00827 (Mint 19/3/434)] should be postponed pending a precise ruling on the boundaries of the Mint.

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Two variant holograph drafts, one on each side. NC suggests the verso may relate to the similar dispute of 1699 [see MINT00820 (Mint 19/3/429-30)], but even by Newton's standards twenty-one years seems rather a long time to let pass between using one side of a sheet and the other.

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Recto printed in NC, 7: 94-6; verso calendared in ibid., 95-6, n.1.