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:GraM Pwt:GraM
No: 1One Port Peice {sic}Wt: 1″2″{illeg}16 Better than standard —″34.—
No: 2One Do. . . .Wt 2″6″15 Better . . . —″34.—
No: 3One Do. . . .Wt 4″14″15 Better . . . —″34.—
No: 4One Do. . . .Wt 9″5″– Better . . . —″114.—
No: 5One 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.