Letter from the Mint Board to The Lord High Treasurer regarding the state of the house of the surveyor of meltings John Stanley Isaac Newton John Ellis c. 188 words The Newton Project Oxford 2016 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 July 1707, c. 188 words. Earl of Godolphin (Lord High Treasurer)

Signed by the Mint Board.

Printed in NC, 4: 496-7.

The 1705 Coinage Act gave the Mint an extra £500 p.a. for salaries, maintenance and repairs, of which £400 has been allocated to the moneyers: propose that the remaining £100 should for the next two years go on building a new house.

 MINT 19/2/497, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/2/497 July 1707 England English Clerical Hand Unknown Hand MintAccounts and Expenses MintCorrespondence Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott Will Scott finished transcription

To the Rt.Right HonbleHonourable the Lord high TrearTreasurer

May it please your LordpLordship

We humbly take leave to represent to your Lordp.Lordship that the house in the Mint belongn.belonging to the Surveyr.Surveyer of the Meltings is so decayd that it cannot be repair'd

The Money Allow'd by Act of Parliamt.Parliament for repairs and Buildings in the Mint is not Sufficient to keep all the Houses in the Mint in good repair, most of which are very old, and to build new ones

That Your Lordp.Lordship being Impowr'd by an Act of Parliamt.Parliament anno 1705 to dispose of 500li a Year for Salaries and other Service's of the Mint out of wch.which Your Lordp.Lordship has been pleas'd to allow 400li a year to the Monyers for their Maintenance, We humbly pray Your LordpLordship will please to grant us an Ordr.Order for the remaining 100li a Year for two Years to Com̄mmence from Christm.sChristmas last to enable Us to build a new house for the Surveyr.Surveyer of the Meltings.

All which is humbly Submitted to yr.your Lordp.Lordships great Wisdome

I Stanley Is. Newton. In Ellis.

Mint Office Iuly 1707 497