The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world.
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The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world.
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Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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At London :: Printed by R. O[ulton, Eliot's Court Press?, Thomas Harper, and Felix Kingston] for Ralph Mabb,
MDCXXXVIII. [1638]
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Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commerce -- Early works to 1800.
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"The merchants mappe of commerce wherein, the universall manner and matter of trade, is compendiously handled. The standerd and currant coines of sundry princes, observed. The reall and imaginary coines of accompts and exchanges, expressed. The naturall and artificiall commodities of all countries for transportation declared. The weights and measures of all eminent cities and tovvnes of traffique, collected and reduced one into another; and all to the meridian of commerce practised in the famous citie of London. By Lewes Roberts, merchant. Necessary for all such as shall be imployed in the publique affaires of princes in forreigne parts; for all gentlemen and others that travell abroad for delight or pleasure, and for all merchants or their factors that exercise the art of merchandizing in any part of the habitable world." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10821.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 8, 2024.
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CHAP. CCXII.
Of Elsinour and the trade thereof.
ELSINOVR of it selfe is but a poore Village, but much frequented by Sea-men by reason of his * 1.1 neighbourhood to that straight Sea called the Sound, where the King of Denmarke hath layd so great im∣positions upon all shippes and goods comming out or going into the Baltique sea, as this sole profit surpasseth farre all the revenewes of his kingdome: the strong Castle of Cronburge lies in this village upon the mouth of this straight, to which on the other side of this narrow sea in the kingdome of Norway, another Castle is opposite, called Elsburg, which two are the Keepers of this straight, that no ship can passe in, or come out of the Baltique sea without their leave, and consequently without due payment of this Imposition. On the south side of Cronburge Castle is the largest Road for shippes, toward the Baltique sea where the King is sayd to have his lodgings, which cannot choose but bee a delectable prospect to all men, but especially to him: for shippes goe in and out here by Fleets of hundred, and hee is certaine, that none doe passe either way but according to their burthen and loa∣ding, addes somewhat to his treasurie. The haven is capable to contain a great Fleet, for it hath Cronburge Castle on the North side, the Castle of Elsburge on the East side, and Seeland, the chiefe Iland of the kingdome on the West side, and the Iland
Fimeria, or Wherne on the south side, in which I noted before, that Tycho Brahe the famous Mathematician had his residence. The Danes conceive this Iland to be of such importance, as they have a Fable, that Henry the seventh of England offered for the pos∣session of it, as much Scarlet Cloth as would cover the same, with a Rose Noble at the corner of each Cloth. If any such offer were made, doubtlesse the wisedome and judgement of that Prince, knew how to make that Iland being fortified, peradventure to returne him his charges againe with good interest; but it is not credible, by reason that it cannot benefit a forraine Prince whose territories lyeth out of the Sound, by which hee must needs enter those beforementioned Castles commanding the entrance, though it might prove more beneficiall to some Prince bordering upon the Baltique seas, and to whom the sea is open for passage.