MINT00388: In response to Allardes' proposal, recommends that for the duration of the recoinage the Scots be allowed to revert to their old practice [adding copper during melting] as this seems to be the only practicable method of producing standard coin there
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 14 November 1707, c. 271 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/187, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00392: Clerical copy of MINT00391 (Mint 19/3/119), with the supplementary paragraph (on meeting melting expenses from the Equivalent) incorporated into the body of the letter
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 4 December 1707, c. 303 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/33, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00393: David Gregory: 'Ane account of the new regulations of Her Majesty's Mint at Edinburgh humbly laid before the Right Honble the Earle of Godolphin Lord high Treasurer of Great Britain'
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 13 December 1707, c. 506 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/173, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00394: Bill totalling £207.14s. for equipment made for the Edinburgh Mint by John Croker and Samuel Bull, engravers, and Thomas Sylvester, smith, between 15 July and 18 December 1707
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 18 December 1707, c. 181 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/178, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00397: In response to queries from Allardes [MINT00391 (Mint 19/3/119), in fact drafted by Newton himself], the Mint approve the proposed allowances
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: c. 11 February 1708, c. 581 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/152, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00400: Memorandum by Scottish Treasury ordering [bullion collector] Daniel Stewart [Stuart] to pay Newton £532.13s.4d. for tools supplied to the Edinburgh Mint
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 26 March 1708, c. 140 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/161, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00402: Orders for payment of the sums mentioned in MINT00400 (Mint 19/3/161) and MINT00401 (Mint 19/3/133-4) have been rendered void by Stewart's death: requests a new order for payment by his executors
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 14 April 1708, c. 101 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/131, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00406: Unfinished holograph draft of a covering letter forwarding MINT00404 (Mint 19/3/121), suggesting that the money needed should be found from coinage duty and from Stewart's executors
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After April 1708, c. 157 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/142, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK