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Chester May yethe 16th: 1725
Sir Isack Newton
Your great, wise and food genious, so much
known to mankinde, leads me, (tho unknown) to trouble you
with the Melancholly acct:account of an unhappy youth, tho a most hopefull
young Gentleman, & son of the best of Mothers, who
alwayes Esteemed an Extraordinary Wife to her husband, & looked
on to be most valuable in the deportment of her minde
which I hope alltogether may deserve your advice, & considera
tion, toward this young Gentleman, & doubt not, but if you will
please to give him leave to make himselfe known to you,
that you will finde him deserveing of yoryour instructions and favor,
because, beleive him, to be a branch of yoryour Family, as I Iudge
may appear, by the following acct:account vizt:
This young Gentleman, Robert Newton now upwards of 15 years old is
the heir of Heightly in the County of Salop, which Estate is well
Wooded, & upwards of £800 ꝑper anannum: This sdsaid Robert Newton, is Lineally descended
from Sir Richard Newton who was Lord Cheife Iustice of the Com̄mmon Pleas, in
Reigns of 3 of the King Henerys, & allso descended Lineally from SrSir Peter
Newton, mentioned in Bakers Chronicles &ca.
This sdsaid Robt: Newton, Minor, is kept out of his Estate by two Daughters,
of his Fathers Eldest Brother, & tho there was a good Settlement made att the Marriage
of his Grandmother, on the Male heirs, yet his uncles two Daughters pretend there
has been fines past, and that their Father & Grand Mother by Lease & Release,
has created it fee simple, but this sdsaid Robt: Newtons Father who was next in the
intail, was not taken in, He was Minister of St Peters Church in this Citty
of Chester, When he dyed, he left 5 young Children, the Eldest, but 12 years old,
and this present youth, then 4 months Old, their Mother, through her great care
and industry, gave them all, a good Edducation, the Eldest son, Chosen fellow, of
Brazon Noze e his Master of Arts degree, he afterward, was Reader
of St Stephens Walbrook London. In the year 1720 he preferred a Bill in Chancery
against the two Daughters of his Vnckle, & continued in suit near two
years, but finding his Mothers substance Exausted, & not able to proceed
dismissed his bill, and soon after dyed, and ever since his death,
the twothe two daughters are cutting down the Wood & makeing great devastation
in the Estate, as appears by the Oaths of Creddible Persons,
SrSir Isack my years & Eyes will not permitt me to write, what may be
said on this terrible case, but as Iustice & conscience, are the motives of
troubling you, I hope it may Excuse me, as I am with great Respect,
Sir Isack,
Your most humble servant
Geo: Needham
The Widdow Newtonss house, is
in the Abby yeard here
I will wait on you when I return
to London – where I hope I may
be able, to shew, that this Family & youth
does merrit yoryour Protection & Patronage
Sir Isack Newton att his house
near Leisterfeilds
London
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May it please yoryour LordpsLordships
In obedience to your LordpsLordships Order of Referent of Sept.
23d, 1
Po new Portugal Gold coins to be taken & report the same to your LordpsLordships with
our opinion ofat what value they may reasonably go in Ireland in
case his MtyMajesty should think fit to make them current there by pro
clamation: We have weighted & c caused five pieces of the said five sorts of new
out of the Portugal Mint, to be assayed & weighed & assayed. And
they proved as follows
| Pieces |
AssayWeights |
Assays |
Values |
|
oz. | dwt. | gr |
|
|
| 1 |
0. | 1. | 3 |
standard weak |
0. | 4. | 4 |
| 2 |
0. | 2. | 8 |
sta.
standard
strong |
0. | 9. | 1 |
| 3 |
0. | 4. | 15 |
sta.
standard
weak |
0. | 18. | 0 |
| 4 |
0. | 9. | 5 |
sta.
standard
strong |
1. | 15. | 10 |
| 5 |
0. | 18. | 9 |
standard |
3. | 11. | 6 |
By these assays the ecoyn is standard & by these weights theyof the pieces, the species are starndard the double to one another in proportion, so that if the biggest maypieces be worthvalu valedvalued at three pounds eleven shillings & eight pence (as we reccon); the next in bigness will be worth one pound eleven penceaba, the least but one eightnine shillings abating an half penny & the least four shillings & six pence abating a farthing. These are their one wthwith another values in England when they come in our silver money fresh out of the Mint one with another but the Merchants will be apt to pick out the lightest pieces & for Ireland & send the heaviest to the melting pot. And those peices wchwhich are full weight when they come fresh out of the Mint, will soon grow lighter by wearing grown lighter in Portugal before they come into Ireland. And the smallest pieces will wear fastest in proportion to their weight & value. And considering also But if they are tothis money is to be made current in Ireland, we are humbly of opinion that they biggest pieces should not be in current for more then 3li 10s; 1li. 15s; 17s 6d; 8s 9d; & the biggest pieces should not be current for more then the value of three Guineas & a third part of a Guinea in Ireland, [the next not for no more then a Guinea & two third parts of a Guinea, the middlemost for five sixt parts of a Guinea, the least but one for five twelft parts of a Guinea, & the least for half as much.] the next in bignes may be current for half the value of the biggest, the nextmiddlemost for a quarter of that value, the least but one for the eighth part of that value & the least for the sixteenth part thereof. All wchwhich is most humbly submitted
The pieces of the biggest species we reccon worth 3li. 11s. 8d each as they come fresh out of the Mint, if well coi & the next in bigone with another; & according to this valuation the next in bigness are worth one pound 15s & ten pence & each, the middlesmost are worth 17s. 11d each, the least but one are worth eighnine shilling & eleven pence each abated an halfpenny, & the least are worth four sh.shillings & six pence each abating a farthing.
The Two thousand three hundred days are the duration of the profanation of the temple. & intermission of the daily sacrsacrifice & amount unto six years & four months & twenty days: whereas the profanation of the temple & interruption of cessation of the daily sacrifice in the reign of Antiochus lasted but three years 1 Maccab. 1. 20, 20, 54. And if you date the time from the first spoiling of the temple by Antiochus, wchwhich was thwo years earlier, the whole will be but five years, & these not continued. But if you date them from the time in wchwhich some Iews forsook apostatized from the law to the religion of the heathens & got a licence from yethe king to do after the ordinances of the heathens, & built built a place at Ierusalem for their religious meetings Mac 1 11, 13, 14): the year of this apostacy is not recorded, & it was but a particular apostacy without profaning the Temple or interrupting the daily sacrifice during 2300 days.
And He only polluted the temple & took away the dalydaily sacrifice during three years or 1080 days. MAccab. 1. 28, 29, 54 He spoiled the temple two years before but did not then take away the daily sacrifice & the whole five years amountamount only to 1800 days. Before this some Iews apostatized from the Iewish religion to the heathen. laws to the heathen religion & got a licence from the king to do after the ordinances of the heathens & built a place at Ierusalem for their religious meetings Maccabi 1. 1.. 12. 14, but they neither cast down the sanctuary nor polluted it not took away the daily sacrifice. The sanctuary conti little horn acted till the last end of the indignation & this indignation is not yet at an end. The sanctuary continued cast down 2300 days before it was cleansed, & day, in sacred prophets are pu for years. Ezek IV, 5, 6.