The Measures of Woad, Hops, and Sea-coale.
VVOad of Thoulouze in France, made vp in Baskets of 56 ll weight, is at Antuerp 50 ll, London 52 ll. Foure Baskets
Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.
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- Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.
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- Malynes, Gerard, fl. 1586-1641.
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- Anno Dom. 1622.
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"Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A06786.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 8, 2024.
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are one Load and foure Bales, or 400 ll is reckoned for a Diars Tri∣all, and at London they take foure Quintalls of 112 ll for a Triall, to know how many short Clothes of 24 yeards it will dye, which is commonly of Ilands Woad from Saint Michael 7 Clothes: And at Thouloze they account that Woad of 36 Frankes, or about 4 pound sterling, dieth 13 Clothes.
Cane in France they measure by a Tub, containing 8 Measures or Sackes, euery Measure 120 ll, is the Coope at Antuerp 1050 ll, accounted for a Triall, but is farre inferiour in goodnesse to Thou∣loze Woad.
Eldfoord in Germany, there one great Drifatt of 1200 ll is a Triall.
Hoppes were wont to be sold by the Measure, but now it is done by weight, namely the hundreth, or by a Skippound of Amsterdam of 300 ll, which comming much into Eng∣land from the following places, is worthy the obseruati∣on, albeit English Hopps are the best.
The Skippound of 300 ll of Am∣sterdam is—
- Bridges 13 Hoett, but now measured.
- Gaunt 23 Halsters.
- Delft 40 Achtelings.
- Schoonhouen 37 Achtelings.
- Vtrecht 13 Muddes.
- Bolduc or Hertogenbosh, 8 Hoet.
- Harlem 2 Hoet.
- Hamborough 1½ Wispell.