MINT00106: Personal expenses of previous warden Benjamin Overton for the year ending 6 February 1690 [= 1691] for a warrant to deal with clippers and for being made a J.P. for Middlesex, Westminster, Essex, Surrey, Sussex, Kent and Hertford, with a memorandum in Newton's hand

Author: Overton, Benjamin

Metadata: 1691 or later, with additions by Newton from after 13 April 1696, c. 72 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/18, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01689: Letter from Newton to an unknown recipient regarding an assay of ore

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 1696-1727, c. 203 words.

Source: Ms. 361(2), f. 18v, New College Library, Oxford, UK

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MINT01690: Letter from Newton to Theodore Janssen asking that Charles Gregory may take part in the next South Sea subscription

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 1696-1727, c. 62 words.

Source: Ms. 361(2), f. 45r, New College Library, Oxford, UK

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MINT00811: Certificate exempting Christopher Priddeth, by virtue of his position as Mint clerk, from civic duties and taxation

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 1696 [day and month left blank], but after 13 April, c. 567 words.

Source: MINT 19/3/404-5, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01105: Copy of appointment of Newton as Warden of the Mint under William III (in Latin)

Author: Pigott

Metadata: 13 Apr 1696, c. 370 words.

Source: MINT 1/5/26r, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00816: Report on wardens since 1672 with commendation of Newton as the first not to treat the post as a sinecure

Author: Fowle, Thomas

Metadata: 1696-99, c. 1,049 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/21-3, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00015: Treasury certificate that Newton has taken an oath not to reveal the new method of rounding and edging coin

Author: Lowndes, William (Secretary to the Treasury)

Metadata: 2 May 1696, c. 73 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/62, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00921: "Dr Newton's Oath as Warden of the Mint"

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 2 May 1696, c. 68 words.

Source: T 1/37.53, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00922: "Memoriall about Mint Money"

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 6 May 1696, c. 464 words.

Source: T 1/37.57, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00926: Letter concerning various possessions seized from counterfeiters in Norfolk

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: c. 25 May 1696, c. 310 words.

Source: T 1/42.50, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00923: Mint presentment concerning the provision of instruments and officers for the five Country Mints

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 8 Jun 1696, c. 247 words.

Source: T 1/38.39, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00924: Letter concerning the allowances made to the Warden and Master of the Mint, requesting additional funds

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 16 Jun 1696, c. 275 words.

Source: T 1/38.48, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00842: An account of the vicissitudes of pursuing coinage offenders

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: c. summer 1696, c. 611 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/438-9, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00841: Holograph draft warrants to the keepers of the relevant prisons

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 7 September 1696, c. 688 words.

Source: MINT 19/1/480, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01248: Letter concerning the allowed method of production of money of English standard at the Chester Mint

Author: Halley, Edmond

Metadata: 28 Nov 1696, c. 469 words.

Source: MM/5.40, Royal Society Library, London, UK

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MINT00925: Letter concerning the memorial of Jonathan Ambrose

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 10 Dec 1696, c. 563 words.

Source: T 1/41.48, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT00927: Letter concerning the petitions of Peter Floyer and Charles Shales

Author: Newton, Isaac, Unknown

Metadata: 6 Feb 1696/7, c. 181 words.

Source: T 1/43.53, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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MINT01249: Letter concerning Halley's acceptance of Newton's offer to assist him in securing an engineer's place

Author: Halley, Edmond

Metadata: 13 Feb 1696/7, c. 296 words.

Source: MM/5.41, Royal Society Library, London, UK

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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

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MINT01241: Copy of letter permitting the altering of the smith shop of the Chester Mint

Author: Newton, Isaac

Metadata: 22 Feb 1697, c. 129 words.

Source: MINT 10/2/69v, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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Media

Manuscript496
Printed1

Category

Accounts and Expenses75
Analyses of Foreign Coin and Exchange Rates26
Clippers, Coiners and Embezzlers57
Coin, Seal and Medal Design14
Copper Coinage44
Correspondence
Country Mints37
Economic Theory and Legislation34
Edinburgh Mint73
Gold and Silver Coinage16
Miscellaneous19
Non-Newtonian Documents8
Overseas Mints and Coinage15
Personnel and Administration46
Pyx Trials and Analyses of British Coinage23
Rights and Privileges of the Mint11
Technical2
The Mine at Alva16
Tin Trade36

Author

Newton, Isaac301
Lowndes, William (Secretary to the Treasury)43
Treasury21
Lord of Oxford & Earl Mortimer (Lord High Treasurer)10
Taylour, Joseph9
Harley, Thomas8
Halley, Edmond7
Unknown6
Stanhope, Charles (Secretary to the Treasury)5
Drummond, William5
Gregory, David4
Scott, Hercules4
Tilson, Chris4
Scrope, John (Treasury Secretary)3
Duke of Lauderdale3
Haynes, Hopton3
Chaloner, William3
Wood, William3
Southwell, Edward (Secretary of the Privy Council of Ireland)3
Stanley, John2
Allardes, George2
Ordnance Office2
B., P.2
Ogilvy, James (Earl of Seafield, Lord Chancellor of Scotland)2
Pinckney, Calverley (Deputy to the Warden of the Mint)2
Fowle, Thomas2
Povey, John2
Walpole, Robert2
Peyton, Craven (Warden)2
Suffolk M.1
Smithson, Henry1
Stringer, H. H.1
Stacy, John1
Clark, James (Edinburgh engraver and die-sinker)1
Overton, Benjamin1
Earl of Godolphin (Lord High Treasurer)1
Barrow, Richard1
Blackborne, Robert1
Lords Justices1
M., M.1
Northey, Edward (Attorney General)1
Boswell, William1
Montgomerie, John (Master of the Edinburgh Mint)1
le Clerk, Gabriel (Graver of the Mint)1
William Wood and partners1
Kidder, V (Assay-Master in Ireland)1
Bradford1
Ellis, John1
Haldane, John1
Batchelor, John1
Dearsley, Thomas (Watchmaker)1
Delafaye, Charles (Undersecretary of State)1
Duke of Shrewsbury (Lord High Treasurer)1
Parry, Charles1
Phelipps, Edward1
Neal, Noah1
Rokeby, Thomas1
Scott, Patrick1
Davies, Isaac1
Chamberlayne, John1
Cottrell, Clement1
Pigott1
Cox, Charles1
Walker, John1
Musgrave, Chris1
Comptroller1
Robinson, Thomas1
Janssen, Theodore1
Anstis, John1
Sandford, Richard (Warden of the Mint)1
Kelsall, Henry1