  Two important sources of information about sunspots in the Maunder minimum
are the Sp\"orer catalog and observations of the Paris observatory, which cover
in total the last quarter of the 17th and the first two decades of the 18th
century.
  These data, in particular, contain information about sunspot latitudes. As we
showed in previous papers, dispersions of sunspot latitude distributions are
tightly related to sunspot indices, so we can estimate the level of solar
activity in this epoch by a method which is not based on direct calculation of
sunspots and is weakly affected by loss of observational data.
  The latitude distributions of sunspots in the time of transition from the
Maunder minimum to the common regime of solar activity proved to be wide
enough. It gives evidences in favor of, first, not very low cycle No. -3
(1712-1723) with the Wolf number in maximum W=$100\pm50$, and, second, nonzero
activity in the maximum of cycle No. -4 (1700-1711) W=$60\pm45$.
  Therefore, the latitude distributions in the end of the Maunder minimum are
in better agreement with the traditional Wolf number and new revisited indices
of activity SN and GN than with the GSN; the latter provide much lower level of
activity in this epoch.
