An Account of the moneys coyned in the Tower

These yeares are from Christmas to Christmas. /And tThe silver coyned in the years 1696, 1697 & 1698 was out of the English hammered moneys & wrought Plate. That coyned in the years 1699 & 1700 was chiefly out of hammered moneys wchwhich came slowly from the country after the heat of the recoynage was at an end. That coyned in the year 1701 was (I think) chiefly out of forreign moneys & bullion brought in by the Peace & by the remains of the Spanish Trade.. [And the Gold coyned in 1701 & part of 1702 was out of Lewidor's which by our valuing them at 17s 6d a piece came into England in great plenty in the preceding years untill by King William's Proclamation they were lowered to 17s a piece, after which they came to the Mint.] And most of theat silver coyned in 1704. And theat silver coyned in the ten following years has almost all of it been from English lead & sometimes from wrought plate imported upon premiums granted by Act of ParliamtParliament.

The Gold coyned in 1701 & part of 1702 was out of Lewidors wchwhich by our valuing them at 17. 6 a piece came into England in great plenty in the preceding years untill by K.King William's Proclamation they were lowered to 17s a piece, & thereupon were brought to the Mint. That coyned in the year t eightten following years came from Portugal & some of it from Iamaica. And a great part of that wchwhich has been coyned in the two last years ca ending at Christmas last, came from French monies melted down, & imported in specie & melted down in Ingots by the Goldsmiths.