62 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Majesty has been graciously pleased by his said order in Council to order that 

 the following pieces of gold coin current in this kingdom do pass in payment 

 within this kingdom at the rates hereafter respectively specified, and that a 

 proclamation should be issued to that effect. We therefore, the Lords Justices 

 and Council, in obedience to His Majesty's said order, do by this our procla- 

 mation publish and declare that the several pieces of gold coin hereinafter 

 mentioned shall, from and after the 10 th day September next, pass and be 

 accepted in all receipts and payments as current money within this kingdom 

 at the several rates hereinafter specified, and none other, that is to say : — 



I 

 The Guinea at .... 



and all other pieces of the same species in 



proportion. 

 The Moidore, ..... 

 The half-Moidore, .... 



The quarter-Moidore, .... 

 The quadruple Pistole or double Doubloon, 

 The Spanish or French double Pistole or Doub- j 



loon, or double Louis d'or, I 



The Spanish or French Pistole, 

 The half Spanish or French Pistole, . 

 The quarter Spanish or French Pistole, 

 The French Louis d'or of the new species. 

 The half French Louis d'or of the new species, 

 The quarter French Louis d'or of the new species. 

 The piece of new gold of Portugal, 

 The half piece of new gold of Portugal, 

 The quarter piece of new gold of Portugal, 

 The half-quarter piece of new gold of Portugal, 

 The sixteenth piece of new gold of Portugal, . 



An allowance of two pence for each grain, one penny for half a grain, and one 

 halfpenny forquarter of a grain deficient in any of the aforesaid coins to be given. 

 And it is declared that the weights now in use in this kingdom, and which are 

 agreeable to the standard remaining with the Clerk of the Council, the Chief 

 Baron of His Majesty's Court of Exchequer and the Receiver-General of this 

 kingdom, and no other, except as hereinafter is mentioned, shall continue to 

 be used for weighing the several sorts of coin above mentioned, as formerly. 



And for the better ascertaining the weight of the said coins, we have 

 directed one weight of half a grain and one weight of a quarter of a grain to 

 be exactly made by William Archdall, of the city of Dublin, assaymaster, and 



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