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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Title: 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.
Publication: 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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Subject terms: 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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CHAP. CCLV.

Zara and the trade thereof.

ZAra being for the goodnesse of its harbour, con∣ceived one of the best of the abovesaid, though * 1.1 small in circumference, yet most commodious for trading, therefore I will note what is observe∣able therein, and make it the principall of the rest, to which the trade of all the others may be reduced.

Their moneyes I account the same as used in Venice, and the Dalmatian and Slavonian coynes are here passable, by reason of * 1.2 their situation, which is bordering all along that continent.

Their weights are two, a grosse and sotile, as is used in Venetia, * 1.3 but found thus to agree together.

100 li. sotile of Zara is Venetia sotile 120 li. English, 80 li.

100 li. grosse of Zara, is Venetia grosse 120 li. English, 128 li.

100 li. sutle Venetia, is grosse 83 li. Zara.

100 li. grosse Venetia, is grosse 83 li. Zara.

Their common measures of length, is a brace 29 inches London, * 1.4 the 100 braces cloth in Venice, makes here 112 braces, and the 100 braces silke in Venice is here 106 or 107 braces, most of the other Ilands concurre with this in weight and measure. Now •…•…∣ling hence, and getting out of these Ilands into the Mediterrane∣an Seas, in which survaying the most eminent of the European Iles therein contained: I finde in the first ranke the Ilands of Sici∣lia, Malta, Corsica, Sardinia, Majorque, Minorque, and some o∣thers now comming to be handled, and first for Sicilia.

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* 1.1

Zara and the trade therof.

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* 1.2

Monyes of Zara.

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* 1.3

Weights of Zara.

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* 1.4

Measures of Zara.

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