Reports the East India Company's offer to take a hundred tons of tin in lieu of money owed it by the Treasury for saltpetre

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To the Right Honourable the Lords Commissioners of her Majestys Treasury.

May it please your Lordships

I understand by Mr Ward that the East India Company are willing to give 7000li for one hundred Tunns of Tin to be paid out of the first moneys they shall receive of your Lordships for salt peter & in the same moneys, & desire the Tin may be speedily delivered if your Lordships approve thereof.

All which is most humbly submitted to your Lordships   great wisdome.

Is. Newton

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