Holograph draft memorandum on various tenders made in 1713 and 1714

Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/2/454, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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There was also in February 171 $\frac{2}{3}$ a Petition of M^r Charles Parry Proprietor of the Tower Mills at Mitcham to deliver blanks of fine hammered copper at 18^d per pound weight, or of fine cast & rolled copper at 15^d per pound weight, to be coyned in the Tower, or to deliver fillets of fine hammered copper ready for the Roller at 15^d per pound weight & take back the scissel at 12^d. The fine hammered copper to be of equall fineness with the blanks of Swedish copper coined in the reign of King Charles the second.

There was also at the same time a Petition of John Pery John Shorey, Leonard Fitchew & Thomas Humfrevile & others Proprietors of the Copper & brass works called Temple Mills neare great Marlow in Buckinghamshire, to deliver into the Mint blanks of the finest copper at 17 $\frac{1}{2}$ per pound weight or else to deliver plates drawn fit for cutting, at 15^d per pound weight & to take back the scissel at 12^d.

There was also in Aug. 1713 a Proposal of Charles Tunnah & William Dale to coin in tenn years a thousand Tunns of half pence & farthings of a mixt metall that should look & touch like ordinary Gold cutting a pound weight into 32 pence.

And one M^r Eyres has since proposed to deliver into the Mint plates of fine copper malleable when red hot without cracking & drawn fit for cutting & blanched, paying him 15^d per pound weight for the blanks cut out of the same & returning back the residue

And the Officers of the Mint being directed in November last to lay before the Lords Commissioners of his Majestys Treasury any Propositions as have been made or they should think fit to make for coyning half pence or farthings of English Copper: they represented that such money be made of fine English copper malleable under the hammer when red hot, because such copper is free from mixture & is of about the same degree of fineness with the Swedish copper money & with copper vessells made at the battering mills. They represented also that such Copper be made into plates of a due breadth & thickness either at the battering mills or at the drawing mills & be received at the Mint by weight & assay upon the Mint-masters note expressing the weight thereof & that the Mint-Master upon delivering back to the Importer the same weight of copper in scissel & money together be discharged of his Receipt; the Importer at the same time paying to the Mint-master a certain Seigniorage for bearing the charges of the Mint & coinage & the Mint-master being accountable for the seigniorage The seigniorage then proposed was 4^d per pound weight whereof 3^d for making the Puncheons & Dyes & coyning, & keeping the coining tools in repair, & a penny more for putting them in repair, & defraying the charges of the buildings & of assaying, weighing, entring in books, accounting & other incidents. And M^r Eyres desiring a recompense for putting off the copper money &c