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 15, 2024.
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CHAP. CXCVII.
Of Lipsicke, and the trade thereof.
LIPSICKE is seated in a plaine of •…•…ost 〈◊〉〈◊〉* 1.1 Come-ground, the streets faire, and the chiefe hou∣ses built of free stone of foure roofes high: it is ac∣counted also an Vniversitie, but found to bee of no great note, by reason of the neighbourhood of Wit∣temberg: they have for some trespasse lost those great priviledges that they formerly enioyed, and therfore their trade is not accoun∣ted great, they may now neither fortifie their towne, nor winde a horne in their night watches, as other Cities in Germanie doe, nor
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yet use Red Wax in their publicke Seales or Contracts, which are all of them accounted in Germanie of signes of freedome. The weights and measures in use are these.
The weight is the pound, of which is made three quintars, one of * 1.2 100 pound, another of 120 pound, and a third of 132 pound. Vide more hereof in Frankefort and Heidelberg, with which it is found to accord.
Lipsicke hath two measures, one for wollen, and the other for linnen, 14 per Cent. difference: For the 100 yards of London doth make in * 1.3wollen commodities 160 elles, and in linnen 140 elles.
The Merchants here account by Markes of 32 grosse, and the grosse* 1.4 being 12 heller; but they exchange by Florins of Breslow, 30 to have posito in Norimburg 32 Florins, and in Vienna 34 Florins.