Holograph queries on such presses Isaac Newton c. 122 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 c. April 1699, c. 122 words.

Printed as a footnote in NC, 7: 118-19, n. 2.

Is trade use a defence? May they be demolished even if no prosecution is secured? Can bona fide trade presses be licensed without 'leaving every man at liberty to have coining Presses who can pretend that he uses them in his Trade'?

 MINT 19/1/460, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/460 c. April 1699 England English Holograph MintClippers, Coiners and Embezzlers 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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Several persons have been taken up wthwith Presses sufficient to coin money & plead in excuse that they use them only in their trades of making metal-buttons bowes for watch keys, middles for Dial-plates of watches & pillars for watches.

Quære 1. Is this a sufficient excuse to free them from being prosecuted for high-treason.

Quære 2. May not the Presses be demolished by order of one or more Iustices of the Peasce without a Prosecution.

Quære 3. May not one or two Artificers be authorised to have Presses for doing this sort of work for Watch-makers & Bullion-makers & others, without leaving every man at liberty to have coining Presses who can pretend that he uses them in his Trade.