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.
Author
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. CCXXXI.
Of the Weights and Measures of Eastland, to that of London.
NOw, for as much as there be many other eminent cities of trade which in particular I have willingly omitted to handle, therefore according to my observed order I will contract them here, and shew how the weight and measures of Lon∣don doe agree, and are found to accord together.
descriptionPage 174
And first, I finde it observed, that the 100l^' of haberdupois in London, doth make in these townes following, viz. in * 1.1
l'
Stralsont as I said,
88
Statin
92
Revell
116
Dansicke
116
Coni•…•…xburghe
120
Rhig•…•…
116
Thore•…•…and Narv•…•…
116
Cracovia
120
Elbin
120
Wild
116
And thus much shall serve for the weights in generall of Eastland, and as for the measures, take here the same observations made upon * 1.2 100 yards of London which produceth in
Els.
Embde•…•…
163
Hamburg
162½
Brem•…•…
163
Lubecke
160
Munster
86½
Ossenbridges
84
Wismar
156½
Coninxburge
166•…•…
Rhiga and Revel
166•…•…
Rhostique
158
Gripswald
163
Donim
163
Stattin
141
Dansicke
163
Ocermond
141
Melluine
161
Nerva
166 arsius.
Notes
* 1.1
The agree∣ment of 100l^' London to divers of Po∣land.