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Subject: William Wood's tender of coppers offered in 1717
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Catalogue Record: MINT00637
Clerical copies of tenders to supply copper received in response to=20
the advertisement of 30 April 1717 [#630 (II.406)] and forwarded to=20
the Mint with #636 (II.366):
Bibliographical Details
Call Number: II.370, 372-3, 377, 380-82, 391-4
Location: The Public Record Office, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK
Contents
(a) (II.372) [May or June 1717.] Tenderer's name omitted.
(b) (II.373) [May or June 1717.] Tender from William Wood.=20
Supplementary note in another hand describing Wood as a=20
Wolverhampton dealer in iron, copper and brass.
(c) (II.377) 21 May 1717. Tender from Thomas Chambers.
(d) (II.380) 21 May 1717. Tender from Henry Robinson.
(e) (II.381) [May or June 1717.] Tender from John Parker.
(f) (II.382) [May or June 1717.] Tender from Henry Neale.
(g) (II.391) [May or June 1717.] Tender from Henry Hind [Hines,=20
Haines, Hinde].
(h) (II.392) 21 May 1717. Tender from John Applebee [Appleby].
(i) (II.393) 24 May 1717. Tender from Richard Jones, who also bids=20
to undertake the coining.
(j) (II.394) 24 May 1717. Tender from Jonathan Holloway.
(k) (II.370) 8 June 1717. Tender from Gabriel Ayres.
Record Last Modified at 09:52 on 7 Nov 2005
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Sir John Craig (Newton and the Mint) indicates copper coinage was=20
started in 1718 withthe dies dated the previous year. Craig=20
indicates Wood was a frequent tenderer of copper to the Mint but it=20
was not until 1722 did he receive a license to the Sister Isle.
This evidence leads Flinn to the Calendar of Treasury Books of 1718=20
and on pages 17, 57 and 495 and confirms the above in the article:
"William Wood and the Coke Smelting Process byMichael W. Flinn. In=20
this article Flinn recounts Wood had been a supplier of copper coins=20
to the government since at least 1718 and continuued to tender for=20
coinage contracts until 1729 (Calendar of State Papers of 1729-30,=20
pages 107,111).
TWO seperate pieces of evdience CONFIRMING 1717 coinage tenders for=20
these bath metal issues. Michael Flinn and Sir John Craig have=20
opened the door - we only need to WALK THROUGH IT ... if we dare???
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