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NEWTON, Isaac (1643-1727). Document signed ("Isaac Newton") as Master of the Mint, Westminster, 24 December 1718.
One page, 162 x 232mm (some losses to left margin reinforced on verso, small loss at upper right corner, left margin trimmed affecting four words of text).
Newton, as Master of the Mint, endorses a financial document: "Wee whose names are underwritten do assign & transferr the principa[l] Sum of two hundred pounds mention[e]d in the order on the other Sid[e] hereof with the Tally of the Same Sum & date belonging thereunto, & al[l] Interest now due thereupon, unto Francis Hall Esqr." Countersigned by Hopton Haynes (1672?-1749), an assayer of the Royal Mint and a protégé of Newton who helped translate some of the scientist's theological commentary into Latin.
One page, 162 x 232mm (some losses to left margin reinforced on verso, small loss at upper right corner, left margin trimmed affecting four words of text).
Newton, as Master of the Mint, endorses a financial document: "Wee whose names are underwritten do assign & transferr the principa[l] Sum of two hundred pounds mention[e]d in the order on the other Sid[e] hereof with the Tally of the Same Sum & date belonging thereunto, & al[l] Interest now due thereupon, unto Francis Hall Esqr." Countersigned by Hopton Haynes (1672?-1749), an assayer of the Royal Mint and a protégé of Newton who helped translate some of the scientist's theological commentary into Latin.