Copy of report on the assay of several new Portugal gold coins

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May it Please your Lordps

In obedience to your Lordps Orders I have exactly weighed the several new Portugal Gold Coins recd: from your Lordps and have made a return of them underneath and have also assayed them severally and have reported them as they answered by Assay.

			Pwt:	Gra	M		Pwt:	Gra	M
No: 1	One Port Peice {sic}	Wt:	1″	2″	{illeg}16	Better than standard	—″	$\frac{\mathrm{3}}{\mathrm{4}}$.	—
No: 2	One Do. . . .	Wt	2″	6″	15	Better . . .	—″	$\frac{\mathrm{3}}{\mathrm{4}}$.	—
No: 3	One Do. . . .	Wt	4″	14″	15	Better . . .	—″	$\frac{\mathrm{3}}{\mathrm{4}}$.	—
No: 4	One Do. . . .	Wt	9″	5″	–	Better . . .	—″	1$\frac{\mathrm{1}}{\mathrm{4}}$.	—
No: 5	One Do. . . .	Wt	18″	8″	15	Better . . .	—″	1.	—

All which is humbly submitted to your Lordps

this 6th: day of April 1725.

By your Lordps

most humble & obedient Servt:

Vin: Kidder.