MINT00878: Copies of two broadly similar petitions requesting a hereditary post in the Mint at £1,000 p.a. in perpetuity in exchange for revealing his new coining method
Author: Rotherham, John
Metadata: Before 15 October 1721, c. 736 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/490, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00880: Holograph note that Rotherham says his invention can be tried out in ten days' time if he is guaranteed the requested hereditary Mint post in the event of its being accepted
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: August 1720, c. 132 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/488, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00881: 'Reasons humbly offered to his Sacred Matie & the Councill, for making an act of Parliament, to prevent the Counterfitting of the Coin, by Ioseph Aickin Clark'
Author: Unknown
Metadata: After 1 August 1714, c. 369 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/437, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK