Letter from Newton to the Treasury requesting a warrant for check weights to be sent to Edinburgh

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For recoining the moneys inof Scotland in her Majties Mint at Edinborough

An Order of her Maty or Counsecil is humbly desired, that ye Warden orf her Majties Mint isn the Tower do forthwith make or cause to be made two Piles of Troy weight of great Britain, in the most exact & perfect manner that by his endeavours can be done, & that the greater & smaller weights of the said two Piles be made & framed proportionable thereunto, & that they be examined & stamped wth the date & printed with a Rose & Thistle standing upon one common stalk & crowned wth one common crown & the date stamped upon them, in the presence of the Officers of her Majties Mint in the Tower, & that one of the said Piles be then delivered by the said Warden to the Order of the Lord High Treasurer to be carried to her Majties Mint at Edin{illeg}borough & there to remain with her Majties Officers of the said Mint, to the end that other weights of Troy may be there made conformable unto them, & the other of the said piles to remain within the Warden or Wardens for the time being within the said Tower of London.