Holograph fragment of an account for the Mint's receipt of silver recovered from the shipwreck off Mayo
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May it please your Lordships
Pursuant to your Lordships Warrant We have received his Majestys share of the silver taken up out of the Wreck neare the Island of Mayo, amounting to 618lwt 11oz, & the same being carried to the Mint & melted down into clean ingots made in gross weight 614li. 3 ounces & in standard weight 626lwt. 7oz. 16dwt. 21gr.
Source
MINT 19/2/571, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKc. 5 December 1721, c. 73 words.