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3) [[left margin]] Standard Weight of Several Coins Frome an old Box of Scales & money weights of M[[superscript]] r [[/superscript]]. Groford & M[[superscript]] r [[/superscript]]. Wing [[/left margin]] [[right margin]] Objection to the time of the Deluge. 1. [[superscript]] st [[/superscript]] Answer. [[/right margin]] [[List of 4 columns, later 3 column heading are units of weight]] OZ. Pwt. Gr. A 5 Moidore Piece --- 1" | 14" | 15 1/4 One Moidore --- ." | 6" | 22 1/4 Half a Moidore --- ." | 3" | 11 A £ 3" 12 Piece --- ." | 18" | 10 A £ 1" 16. Do [[Ditto for: piece]] --- ." | 9" | 5 18 Shillings Do.[[Ditto for: piece]]--- ." | 4" | 14 1/2 9 Shilling Do. [[Ditto for: piece]] ---." | 2" | 7 1/4 A Guinea --- ." | 5" | 9 1/2 Guinea --- ." | 2" | 16 1/2 * A Jacobus --- ." | 6" | 6 † A Carolus --- ." | 5" | 18 ‡ A Pistole --- ." | 4" | 8 Note, That each Grain of Gold is 2,[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] at £ 4 per Ounce. * A Gold coin stamped in King [[underlined]] James [[/underlined]] I. [[superscript]] st [/superscript]] a broad-piece 20. [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] value, now current at 23. [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] and the 22.[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] broad-piece, now current at 25. [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] † A broad-piece of Gold of King Charles I.[[superscript]] st [[/superscript]] made then for 20.[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] now current at 23.[[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] ‡ A Gold coin struck in [[underlined]] Spain [[/underlined]] & [[underlined]] Italy [[/underlined]], generally valued at about 16. [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] 6 [[superscript]] d [[/superscript]] sterling. Jan.[[superscript]] y [[/superscript]] 1769. The pound troy is divided into 44 1/2 equal parts, each of which make a guinea. But according to the last proclamation, a guinea should weigh 5 Pwts [[8?]] Gr. & 1/2 a guinea 2 Pwts 16. Gr. less than these are not passable. [[left margin]] Direction to the Society for the Encouragement of Arts &c. [[/left margin]] [right margin]] 2.[[superscript]] nd [[/superscript]] Answer. [[/right margin]] Any Information or Advice, which may forward the designs of the Society ([[underlined]] instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] Manufactures and Commerce [[/underlined]]) for the Public Good, will be received thankfully, and duly considered, if communicated by letter directed to D[[superscript]] r [[/superscript]].[[underlined]] Templeman [[/underlined]], the Secretary, at the Society's Office, opposite [[underlined]] Beaufort [[/underlined]], in the [[underlined]] Strand [[/underlined]], London. [[left margin]] Among the machines in the said Society's Repository, are these 5. [[/Left margin]] [[right margin]] [[underlined]] West side [[/underlined]] of the Globe most [[underlined]] warm & fertile. [[/underlined.]] V. p.60. [[/right margin]] 1. A Compass and Protractor, by M[[superscript]] r. [[/superscript]] Aaron Miller; for which he had a bounty of ten guineas, Feb. 11, 1767. 2. A Machine for taking Heights and Distances, by M[[superscript]] r. [[/superscript]] Grant. 3. An Expanding Rod for gauging vessels, by M[[superscript]] r. [[/superscript]] Efford; for which he had a bounty of twenty guineas, Apr. 22, 1767. [[right margin]] Heat increases a body's bulk & weight. [[/right margin]] 4. A Pair of Door-Hinges with Spiral Springs, by M[[superscript]] r. [[/superscript]] Delivitz; for which he had a bounty of fifteen pounds. Feb. 3, 1768. 5. A Model of a Crane, by M[[superscript]] r. [[/superscript]] Pinchbeck; for which he had a gold Medal, June 3, 1767.
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The writer made use of the long 's' in several instances (notably in cases of a double 's' in the word, in which the first 's' is long and the second is a common 's'). The long 's' looks like an 'f' to modern readers.
