MINT00348: Printed ready-reckoner, compiled by George Brown, of the value in sterling silver of varying finenesses of bullion (for the use of merchants supplying bullion to the Mint) (Edinburgh, 1687)
Author: Brown, George
Metadata: 1687, c. 1,417 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/10, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00353: Extract from the London Mint indenture allocating poundage, followed by an extract from the warrant requiring the Edinburgh Mint to follow the rules set out in the London Mint indenture
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 1707, c. 335 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/18, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00354: Holograph drafts of royal warrants to the Edinburgh master and officers to undertake coining according to the rules set out in Newton's indenture
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 1707, c. 610 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/186, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00357: 'A Bill of the prizes [i.e. prices] of such Tools & other things as may be usefull in her Majts Mint in Scotland', with a covering letter to the Treasury
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: c. 12 April 1707, c. 1,115 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/15-16, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00359: The articles ordered for the Edinburgh Mint have been embarked, all except the weights and seals, as authorisation to mark the weights has not yet been given: request for such authorisation
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 26 May 1707, c. 236 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/97, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00360: If pyx trials are to continue to be conducted in Scotland as the Lord Chancellor of Scotland wishes, new gold and silver trial pieces should be made and allotted to the English and Scottish Mints and Treasuries and to the Goldsmith's Company
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 31 May 1707, c. 773 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/190, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00365: Royal warrant to George Allardes [Allardyce, Allardice, master of the Edinburgh Mint] to coin crowns, half-crowns, shillings and sixpences in the proportion 20: 30: 40: 10, as in England, using London tools, and inscribing the letter E on each coin
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 20 June 1707, c. 313 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/42-3, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK