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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



An Act of Parliament (14 George III, chap. 92) ordered that one guinea 

 weight and one shilling weight and also other weights, being parts and 

 multiples of the said guinea and sh i ll in g weights, were to be made. Duplicates 

 of the same were also to be made, and all weights were to be regulated by the 

 duplicates, and after having been compared and found to be just and true 

 should be marked with a stamp or mark to be approved by the Master of the 

 Mint. 



Notice was given in the " London Gazette " of December 13th, 17th, and 

 24th, 1774, that John Whitehurst was appointed to stamp or mark all 

 weights for weighing gold or silver coin. The mark or stamp to be an 

 imperial crown. 



Money weights dating from after 1774 occur struck with various stamps, 

 such as a coffee-pot, a lion, passant, an anchor, &c., but I have not been able 

 to find any reference to the use of these marks. 



Joseph Sage was appointed stamper of weights in 1788, and perhaps a 

 change of marks took place then. 



From this time onward it seems that any person could make the money 

 weights, pro\dded that, on being found true, they were struck with the official 

 stamp. The names of two Dublin goldsmiths appear on guinea weights — 

 " John Locker, 1775," and " William Moore, 1 Capel Street." Moore worked 

 in No. 1 Capel Street, from 1774 to 1781. Also in the " Limerick Chronicle " 

 of July 13th, 1786, an advertisement appears of Charles Harrison, watch- 

 maker, who states he makes gold scales and weights. 



The following is a list of the makers of money weights for use in Ireland, 

 as far as can at: present be ascertained : — 



Sir Thomas Alylesbury, . 1632 



Eichard Lord, Dublin, . 1670-1683 

 John Cuthbert and Henry Paris, 



Dublin, . . . 1683-1698 



Vincent Kidder, Dublin, 1698 1736 



WiUiam Archdall, Dublin, 1736-1751 



Henry Archdall, Dublin, 1751-1760 



The following notices appear in Faulkner's " Dublin Journal," April 6 to 

 8, 1775 : — " Tower money weights, under patent of the Great Seal of England, 

 landed this day, and to be had at Craig's in Parliament Street, on which the 

 public may rely with the utmost safety. Scales and beams constructed on 

 an entirely new construction." 



April 27 to 29, 1775 : — " Micheal Cormick, goldsmith, sells tower 

 stamped weights. By royal authority." 



James Warren, DubUn, 1760 



-1782 



John Locker, Dublin, 



1775 



WiUiam Moore, Dublin, . 



1775 



Samuel Gatchell, Dublin, . e 



1800 



Richard Smart, Cork, 



1679 



Charles Harrison, Limerick, . 



1786 



