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. 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.

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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
Statin92
Revell116
Dansicke116
Coni•…•…xburghe120
Rhig•…•…116
Thore•…•… and Narv•…•…116
Cracovia120
Elbin120
Wild116

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
Hamburg162½
Brem•…•…163
Lubecke160
Munster86½
Ossenbridges84
Wismar156½
Coninxburge166•…•…
Rhiga and Revel166•…•…
Rhostique158
Gripswald163
Donim163
Stattin141
Dansicke163
Ocermond141
Melluine161
Nerva166 arsius.

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