May it please yoer LordpLordship

According to yoer LordpsLordships Order signified to me by Mr Secretary Harley in his Letter of Feb. 26 instantlast, I have considered the Letter of his Grace the Duke of Ormond her MajtsMajesties Lieutenant General & General Governour of Ireland sent to yoer LordpLordship, together with the Representation sent to his Grace from the Lords of her MatsMajesties most HonbleHonorable privy Council of that Kingdom, mentioning a late Proclamation for making current in Ireland some pieces of forreigforreign gold & proposing the making current there by further Proclamation several other pieces of forreign Gold therein named & omitted in a former Proclamantion in order to prevent the counterfeiting thereof by making the crime high treason And as to the value of the pieces I humbly represent that the Spanish Pistoles one wthwith another, as they are brought hither by the Merchant, weigh 103 grains each, & are in fineness half a grain wors then standard, & after the rate that a guinea is valued in England at 1£ 1s 6d, are here worth 17s 1d, & in Ireland where the silver money is raised a penny in the Shilling, if the gold be raised in the same proportion, are worth 18s 6d. But by the Representation I perceive that they are recconed in Ireland to weigh only 102 grains, a grain (as I conceive) being abated to give a currency to such lighter peices as want not above a grain of their just weight. The Lewid'ors of France are of the same weight fineness & value wthwith the Spanish Pistoles. And the Moyders of Portugal one wthwith another, as they are brought hither by the merchant, weigh 165 grains & three quarters of a grain, & are a quarter of a grain better then standard, & in England are worth 27s. 8d$\frac{1}{2}$, & being raised a penny in the shilling become worth 1£ 10s 0d in Ireland. In her MajtsMajesties Proclamation their weight may be put 165 grains, the fraction being omitted in favour of the lighter pieces. In the Representation their weight is put 168gr wchwhich is certainly too much; & thence it comes to pass that they are there valued at 1£ 10s 6d, wchwhich is 6d too much. I have examined the weight of 30 parcels of Moyders conteining a thousand Moyders in each parcel & thereby found that the Moyder at a medium weighs only 165$\frac{3}{4}$ grains.