Copy of report on the assay of several new Portugal gold coins
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May it Please your Lordships
In obedience to your Lordships Orders I have exactly weighed the several new Portugal Gold Coins received from your Lordships 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 Portugal Piece | Weight | 1″ | 2″ | 16 | Better than standard | —″ | . | — |
No: 2 | One Ditto . . . | Weight | 2″ | 6″ | 15 | Better . . . | —″ | . | — |
No: 3 | One Ditto . . . | Weight | 4″ | 14″ | 15 | Better . . . | —″ | . | — |
No: 4 | One Ditto . . . | Weight | 9″ | 5″ | – | Better . . . | —″ | 1. | — |
No: 5 | One Ditto . . . | Weight | 18″ | 8″ | 15 | Better . . . | —″ | 1. | — |
All which is humbly submitted to your Lordships
this 6th: day of April 1725.
By your Lordships
most humble & obedient Servant
Vin: Kidder.
Source
T 27/24.110, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK6 Apr 1725, c. 140 words.