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:GraM Pwt:GraM
No: 1One Portugal PieceWeight 1216 Better than standard 34.
No: 2One Ditto . . .Weight 2615 Better . . . 34.
No: 3One Ditto . . .Weight 41415 Better . . . 34.
No: 4One Ditto . . .Weight 95 Better . . . 114.
No: 5One Ditto . . .Weight 18815 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.