MINT00345: Draft memoranda on legislation under Queen Anne relating to duty on foreign trade
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 3 April 1704, when the 'Act for granting to her Majesty an additional Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage for three Years, and for laying a further Duty upon French Wines, condemned as lawful Prize, and for ascertaining the Values of unrated Goods imported from the East-Indies' was passed., c. 585 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/445, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT02066: Draft memoranda on legislation under Queen Anne relating to duty on foreign trade
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: After 3 April 1704, when the 'Act for granting to her Majesty an additional Subsidy of Tonnage and Poundage for three Years, and for laying a further Duty upon French Wines, condemned as lawful Prize, and for ascertaining the Values of unrated Goods imported from the East-Indies' was passed., c. 346 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/446, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00295: Holograph draft of MINT00294 (Mint 19/3/447), with a deleted suggestion that if the mark could be 'made in the Body of the Paper' [rather than glued on top: the idea seems to be something akin to a watermark] it might be very useful
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 8 May 1704, c. 221 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/448, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00294: Report on a proposal by one White for gluing duty marks onto paper rather than impressing it [to certify that the recently-imposed tax on paper for parchments and deeds had been paid]
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 15 May 1704, c. 211 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/447, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK