MINT00833: Warrant of the Earl of Rochester to the warden's agents to take inventories of the possessions of people arrested for false coining and deliver these to the warden
Author: Hyde, Laurence (1st Earl of Rochester)
Metadata: 1 December 1686, c. 356 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/426-7, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00835: Copy of Privy Seal renewing warrants granting the personal property of coinage offenders to the Mint warden, and authorising the disposal of their real estate by the Treasury for rewards to informers
Author: Unknown
Metadata: 16 February 'in the fifth year of our [William's and Mary's] reigne' [i.e. 1694], c. 1,369 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/428-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00838: 'Reasons why the Bayliffes of Westminster [...] ought not to Claime the goods of Traytors and Felons, nor the Tooles Clippings &c. seized upon Clippers and False Coiners'
Author: Unknown
Metadata: c.1696, c. 792 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/433-4, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00839: Holograph draft memorandum [clearly related to MINT00838 (Mint 19/1/433-4) but completely different in wording] asserting the Mint's right to coiners' forfeited goods over claims by the bailiffs and sheriffs of Westminster
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 13 April 1696, c. 487 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/435, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00840: Holograph accounts of three successful trials of counterfeiters, adduced as precedents to show that such crimes could be prosecuted long after they were committed, and could be accounted high treason
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 13 April 1696, c. 824 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/482, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00843: Order of the Commons Committee on the Miscarriages of the Mint (forwarded to Newton by the Committee's chairman, Arnold) for [William] Chaloner [Challoner]to demonstrate before them his method of making guineas
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 15 February 1696 [= 1697], c. 92 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/506, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00844: Petition of Francis Moore to the Treasury for a share of the estate of the convicted counterfeiter William Hawkins (executed on 26 July), as a reward for ascertaining the extent of this estate
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: Between 26 July and 12 August 1697, c. 298 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/485, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00851: Petition for the return of a button-making machine of his own invention which has been impounded by the Mint on suspicion of being used for coining fake money
Author: Bovey, Gerard (Button maker)
Metadata: Before 4 April 1699, c. 860 words.
Source: MINT 19/1/454-5, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK