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A Trial of the Pyx is called for in Neal Stephenson's fiction novel The System of the World. Where it is revealed that Jack Shaftoe raided the Tower of London specifically to tamper with the Pyx, Viscount Bolingbroke and Charles White use the event as leverage for political attack against Whigs, specifically Isaac Newton.
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