Holograph list of proposed amendments to the Mint indenture, including an additional remedy of one grain for every ten quarter-guineas Isaac Newton c. 246 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 Before 6 May 1718, c. 246 words.

[The indenture of 6 May 1718 in fact went slightly further, increasing the remedy to one grain for every eight quarter-guineas: see Challis, History, 750.]

 MINT 19/1/420, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/420 Before 6 May 1718 England English Holograph MintPersonnel and Administration Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott
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Pag. 3. lin. 15 Mint or Mints in great Britain.

Ib.Ibid lin 31 Mint or Mints in the said Kingdom of England.

Pag 4. lin 10. five sorts of money of Crown Gold. One Piece wchwhich shall be called the running for five shillings & three pence sterling, & there shall be one hundred & seventy & eight of those in the pound weight Troy.

Pag. 19. lin 19 add: & the sixteighth part of a grain from the counterpoise of the five shillings & three pence piece. And by reason of the difficulty of sizing the small pieces of five shillings & six pence piecesthre three pence wthwith equal exactness thisexactly His MatyMajesty doth hereby appoint & ordern that thea Remedy to be allowed to in the trial of these pieces of gold a Remedy of fourth fift part of a carrat be allowed in the trial of a pound weight of these & so proportionally in the of these small pieces of Gold, & proportionally in the trial of a greater of less quality of thereof the Remedy above mentioned of the sixt part of a carat, be enlarged by allowing in weight one grain more for every ten pieces in the pound weight Troy assayed tried to

Pag. 3. l. 24 add excepting only such summs as shall be applied to the prosecuting of those who diminish or ocounterfeit the current coins not exceeding four hundred pounds pe in any one year.