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
MINT01535: To the Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled proposals humbly offered, for passing an act to prevent clipping and counterfeiting of mony [sic]
Author: Chaloner, William
Metadata: 11 Feb 1694/5, c. 3,218 words.
Source: To the Honourable, the knights, citizens, and burgesses, in Parliament assembled proposals humbly offered, for passing an act to prevent clipping and counterfeiting of mony ([London]: 1694/5).
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