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BNL.731.002
4-11 Feb 1731:21 (1411)
From the Daily Journal, Sept. 24. Paris, Sept. 30. On
Monday and Tuesday last, the King of Portugal's two great
bells were weigh'd in the scales, and weigh'd about 40,000
pound the two, whereas the founder had charged them at the
rate of 40,000 pound apiece; and the four lesser likewise
wanted two thirds of the weight he set them down at. There
are to be weigh'd over again at the Steel-yard, to see
whither it agrees with the scales: But there being about
70,000 pound weight of metal short of the due quantity, the
founder has been seized and committed to Fort l'Eveque, to
make him give an account how this should happen.
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