Partial holograph draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00729">MINT00729</ref> (Mint 19/3/542-3) Isaac Newton c. 537 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 [After 1 August 1714 (King George's accession).], c. 537 words. MINT 19/3/478, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/3/478 [After 1 August 1714 (King George's accession).] England English Holograph MintTin Trade Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed byWill Scott Checked by Will Scott
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Considerations upon

The present state of the Tin affair.

If the late Queens contract for Tin be not renewed the several in Trustees in whose hands the Queen left 5240 Tunns of Tin for payment to be sold for payment of the debts upon it & upon the civil list, must sell that tin at so low a prize that it shall not be worth the while for Cornwall to dig so much Tin as well hinder the sale of a considerable quantity of her MatsMajestys Tin annually for paying those debts. How low that price will prove is difficult to afford but considering the great stock of Tin & that Tin has been sold formerly at 40 or 50 shillings per TCcwtun; it may be presumed that to sell as much of the Queens Tin as shall be dug for& saoled in Cornwall (suppose about 630 Tunns per anannum, the whole consumption amounting only to 1260 Tuns prper anannum) the price will most probably come down to less then 45s per Ccwt. If the Trustees could sell 650 Tunns per anannum at 45s per Ccwt the sale would last eight years & produce 23000li for paying the Queens debts. And this Annuity (rebating interest at 5 prper cent) would now be worth in ready money 185817li is may be therefore the present be recconed the full value of all the Queens Tin.

According to this recconing Cornwall would sell but only about 630 Tunns per anannum at 45li per Ton or less during the next eight years: wchwhich quantity & price would occasion great complaints & discontents in that County during theat next eight years time. And on the other hand in the contract should be renewed for any number of years the King would receive from Cornwall & Devon together about 710 Tunns per anannum more then the consumption would carry off. Which yearly addition to the dead stock would muchcontinually encrease the mischief & make it every year more & more difficultimpracticabledifficulty of gettign rid of the contractsdammage of their crown by these contracts & the difficulty ofof tof putting an end to thesem. contracts.

If the people of Cornwall should only dig 400 Tuns per anannum & the King should contract with them for it at the rate of 3li 9s 4d per Ccwt, it would be more advantageous to them then to have no contract at all. And therefore if the King should contract with them for six or eight hundred or a thousand Tunns per anannum at the same price they would have great reason to rejoyce at it as a very great favour. And if heis MatyMajesty should contract with them for 11 or 12 hundred Tunns per anannum besides 40 Tunns from Devon, it would be as much as the consumption would carry off. at present

If heis MatyMajesty contracts with Cornwall, it will be requite that he contract also with the Trustees for the Queens Tin. And if he pays for it about 28 or 30 thousand pounds per nannum for eight years togeter, or for an equivalent price in any other manner. They will in my humble opinion have no reason to complain of the bargain.