Draft of <ref target="/catalogue/record/MINT00044">MINT00044</ref> (Mint 19/1/121) Isaac Newton c. 863 words The Newton Project Oxford 2017 Newton Project, University of Oxford

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 Before or on 5 September 1701, c. 863 words.

Mint 19/1/124-5 is also dated 5 September 1701. On reverse of Mint 19/1/119: holograph copy of Herodotus's account of Semiramis.

 Recommends Hopton Haynes for the post of weigher and teller, giving an account of his previous employment at the Mint (as a clerk) and elsewhere [MINT 19/1/121] MINT 19/1/119, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK UKSurreyKew, RichmondNational Archives MINT 19/1/119 Before or on 5 September 1701 England English Greek Holograph Clerical Hand MintPersonnel and Administration Catalogue information compiled by Rob Iliffe, Peter Spargo & John Young Catalogue exported to teiHeader by Michael Hawkins Transcribed by Will Scott

To the RtRight HonbleHonourable the Lordss CommrsCommissioners of his MajtsMajestys TrearyTreasury.

May it pl.please yoryour LordpsLordships,

Amongst all the Petitioners for the place of Weigher & Teller, whose Petitions are referred to us I have most experience of the abilities of Mr Haynes. The allegations in his Petition are true & while he acted in the Mint he had there a general reputation for integrity, diligence, sobriety, good humour & readiness in business & have been longabout 14 years amongst us he is skilled in all the business of the Mint & in the time of recoyning the hammered money did great service. In these accounts the Officers of the Mint (Mr Neale, Mr Hall & my self mentioned in the Petition & my self) then recommended him earnestly to the Lords CommrsCommissioners of his MajtsMajestys TrearyTreasury as a very fit person to execute the Office of Comptroller under the two late Comptrollers in that time of great business, & when the Comptrollers insisted on Mr Beresford a stranger, Mr Haynes was appointed to take care of the Comptroller's business till Mr Beresford could qualify himself. After the reccoynagerecoynage of the hammered money was over Mr Haynes was imployed in the Excise Office by Mr Hall above mentioned who is able to give a further accountcharacter of his abilities & behaviour in both Officers.: Yet Mr Neale till his death Decemb. 99 continued him his Clerk wthwith a salary of 100℔ ꝑper anannum in recompence of his services & making upexamining & seeking the AcotsAcounts of yethe five Country Mints. On account of his abilities I have ever since wished for him back into the Mint & if he be not now brought back (as he has been once already at a time when we could not be wthwithout him) some person unskilled in orour business will instead of him come amongst us a success until the late Weigher & Teller other & Tellers place or intoeither to succeed the late weighersus to succeed either in the place of the late weigher & Teller or in the place wchwhich his successor shall or the new one.the Wardens Wardens Deputy.leave If any of their Principal Officers or their Clerks or Deputies should at any time die or leave the Mint Mr Haynes is qualified to assist till the place can be supplied anew that yethe business of the Mint receive no stop. For we want men of skill.

If any other Competitor thinks himself equally qualified in Mint affairs I desire that his character may by any friend who best knows it be put into the hands of the Officers of the Mint that we may examin it by tryall & make a true report thereofof his skill to yoryour LordpsLordships. But of the qualifications of such Petitioners as have not been conversantare not versed in the Mint affairs we do not presume to judge. They are recommended to yoryour LordpsLordships by pPersons better able to judge of their disposition & capacity in generall then we are. What skill men have attained to we can know by seeing them use it but what they will attain to hereafter & in what time we are not able to foretell, We & therefore reccon it a very great advantage to be actually skilled in orour business

Herodotus represents Nitocris above mentioned to have been a woman of greater

Herodotus representstells us that there were two famous Queens of Babylon, Seeivanis & Nitocris above above mentioned & that yethe latter was more skilfull. She+ + She observing that yethe kingdom of the Medes be having subdued many enties & amongst others Nineve & was become great & sedatepotent, intercepted & fortified the passages out of Media into Babylon, & the river wchwhich before was streight she made crooked with great windings – The river wchwhich was straeght before made crooked that it might flow more sedately & wthwith great windings that it might be less apt to flow be less apt to overflow, & above Babylon dug a Lake StadiaEvery way 40 miles broad to keep receive the water of the river as a mist a din spring & keep it for watering the ground land. And turning the River she built a Bridge over its channel in Babylon & then She built also a bridge over it in Babylon turning into another channelthe stream into the Lake till the Bridge was built. Philostratus says that she made a veta Apollo bridge under the River two fathomes broad, meaning an cave arched cave over which the river flowed. He calls her Med Μηδεια that is a Mede. For Berosus tells us that Nebuchadnezzar built a pensil Garden upon arches because his wife was a Mede & right todelighted in mountanous prospects, She also observing that the kingdom of the Medes was become great & sedatewhich were wanting in Babylon wchwhichsuch as abounded in Media but were wanting in Babylon. its probable that she was yethe sister of Astyages married Nebuchadnezzar upon a leage between their fathers against Nineva

— & the many works of Seminarus were extant in divers parts of Asia till the days of Syria