Original letter, written and signed by Peyton, informing Newton of the premium price for silver coin and plate

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<text in Isaac Newton’s hand begins>Here I Athenagorus by calling Christ the Idea of all things, takes him for ye Logos of the Platonist; & by saying that God had this Logos always in himself because he was rational from all eternity, makes Christ the inward reason & wisdom of the father, {illeg} the λογος ενδιαφετος without wch ye father would be ασοφος & αλογος: & by calling him the first {illeg} ofspring begotten of the father {illeg} who was not made (or created out of nothing) but came out of ye father as ye Idea & energy of all things in order to Gods forming them out of the Chaoscreating the world makes him generated not from all eternity but in the beginning of ye creation, by emission or projector o the internal Logos being then emitted or projected outwardly. For Athenag like the Ærms of the Gnosticks & Logos of ye P{illeg} Calapbarygians & Platonists. For Athenagoras had told ussaid before that the creator of the universalserm noster Beum lustum Conditor celebrats conditore illium universilatis, qui ingenitus ipse (ni erum generari petist quod est sed quod non est,) omnia Verbo suo creavit. He makes also the Holy Grail an emanation of the fathers {illeg} ot a necessary & eternal emanation but a voluntary & temporary one sometimes flowing from ye farther sometimes returning back to him as the rays of ye sun are emitted from him & retur reflected back. to him. And of these three he makes an union wth a distintion {sic} of order, one

Of the very same opinion was Theophilus bishop of Antioch the Metropolis of the east, For in his second book to Autolycus he wrote thus Deus habens summ serononem ενδεαφετον internum in suis vesceribus

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Carpocrates the Coryphæus of who appeared in the reign of Adrian & Antonieus Pius ringleader & was coryphæus of ye Grataes Gnosticks taught his son Epiphanes the Platonic philosophy & discipline, & whereas Plato had to haud {sic} taughtsaid {illeg} he misunderstanding Plato taught that all mens wives were common. Clem. Alex Stropm. l. 3. p 428, 431. And Marci{illeg}n also who began to spread his heresy in the {illeg}beginning of ye reign of Antonieus Pius Marcus & Verus & was the disciple of Cerdon the disciple of Carpocrates, borrowed several doctrines from Plato. Clem Strom 4 p 434.

<text in Craven Peyton Warden’s hand begins>House of Commons 14th. April. 1709

Sr.

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The Description of what {illeg}Bullion shall be received at is, two pence half penny ꝑ Ounce, for Every Ounce of Foreign Coynes & foreign or British wrought Plate of the Standard of Eleven Ounces two penny weight fine or reduced there unto, I heard you was inquiring for me about this matter, so I have taken the liberty to send it to you, and am

Your most humble

Sert.

Crav: Peyton

To Sr. Isaac Newton
present.