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Let the Registers of Westby, & Bichfield be searched, from the beginning to the year 1650; & extracts be taken of whatever marriages, births, & buryals have been in the family of the Newtons. & if the old Register of Colsterworth can be found, let the like extract be taken out of that. & let the extracts be taken, by copying out of the Registers, whatever can be met with, about the family of the Newtons, in words at length, without omitting any of the words.
- Direct your letter to Sr. Isaac Newton, at his house in Jermyn Street, in Saint James's parish, in Westminster, London.
Thus far Sr. Isaac. & in it we have a specimen of his great, & scrupulous accuracy, in every thing he did, or wrote.
when Sr. Isaac was knighted, he made this inquiry
