According to yoer LordpsLordships Order of Febr 26 signified to me by Mr Secretary Harley's Letter of Feb 26 instant I have considered the Letter of his Grace the Duke of Ormond her Mats LewtMajesties Lewtenant GeneneralGeneral & General Governour of Ireland sent to your LordpLordship, with the Representation sent to his Grace from the Lords of her Majts.Majestys most humble honblehonorable privy Council of that Kingdom proposing the making current there by proclamation several pieces of forreign Gold therein named in order to precent the counterfeiting thereof. [I have not seen the last Proclamantion for making forreign moneys curent in that kingdom but presume that by yethe values proposed in this Representation that to be put upon Spanish & French gold moneys, that the Spanish Pistole weighing 102 Grains was therein valued at 18s 6d, & that the French of t Lewis was there estimanted of the same weight & value. And if so, the all the French Spanish & French pieces of gold moneys mentioned in this Representation are rightly weighed & valued in weight & tale, in proportion to the Spanish Pistole & the French Lewis. The Moydor is in the Representation estimated at 168gr in weight wchwhich is too much by about 3 grains. They weigh one wthwith another 165gr, & are finer then the Spanish Pistoles & French Lewises, by $\frac{1}{4}$ ofhalf a grain & so in proportion to the French & Spanish gold moneys a Moyeder should be valued 1. 10 at 1. 10. 1 or in round numbers 1. 10. 0, & in proportion half a Mœder weighing 82$\frac{1}{2}$ gr at 15s & a quarter of a Mœder weighing 41$\frac{1}{4}$ gr at 7s 6d.] And humbly represent that the Moyders of Portugal one with another weigh 16 $\frac{3}{4}$$\frac{1}{2}$ grains & are $\frac{1}{4}$ of a graind worse better then standard, but the French & Lewid'ors & Spanish Pistoles weigh 10 32$\frac{1}{2}$gr one with another as they come from the Merchant or at or so are $\frac{1}{4}$$\frac{1}{2}$ a grain worse Standard, & that at the rate that a Guinea is valued at 1£ 1s 6d a [Spanish Pistole weighing 10 23$\frac{1}{2}$ grains is worth 17s. 21d a Lewidor of the same weight is of ofweighing 103 grains is worth 17. 1d, A Moyder weighing 165$\frac{3}{4}$gr is worth 27 5s 8d$\frac{1}{2}$ . The Quadruple Spanish weighing 1662 grainsPistole of Spain weighing 410gr is worth 3£ 8s - The double Pistole of Spain weighing 205gr is worth 1.£ 14.s. - The Spanish Pistole weighing 3102$\frac{1}{2}$ gr is worth 17s. The double French Lewis weighing 205 grains is worth 1 14 The half Pistole Spanish Pistole is worth weighing 51$\frac{1}{4}$ gr is worth 8 s 6d - The quarter Spanish Pistole weighing 25$\frac{5}{8}$ is worth 4s 3.