MINT00359: The articles ordered for the Edinburgh Mint have been embarked, all except the weights and seals, as authorisation to mark the weights has not yet been given: request for such authorisation
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 26 May 1707, c. 236 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/97, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00360: If pyx trials are to continue to be conducted in Scotland as the Lord Chancellor of Scotland wishes, new gold and silver trial pieces should be made and allotted to the English and Scottish Mints and Treasuries and to the Goldsmith's Company
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: 31 May 1707, c. 773 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/190, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00376: As the English recoinage was 'troublesome expensive and liable to abuse & gross abuses were actually committed in it', recommends various procedures to avoid a recurrence in Scotland. Possibly in reply to MINT00374 (Mint 19/3/110)
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: August? 1707, c. 1,130 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/160, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
MINT00377: On equipment still needed by the Edinburgh Mint, especially crown and half-crown puncheons, which are to be sent overland as this is the quickest way
Author: Newton, Isaac
Metadata: August 1707, c. 614 words.
Source: MINT 19/3/78, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK