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 7, 2024.
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CHAP. CCCXLV.
Of the Exchanges of Naples with Placentia.
NAples exchangeth with Placentia, and giveth posito Duccats 132¾ to have in this place cro. 100 of marke: I demand * 1.1 then for Ducc. 3416 Taries 2 and gr. 8. how many crownes of marke shall I have at Placentia, to doe which, I must first reduce the said summe of Ducc. into graines, and if there were neither Taries nor graines, it were done by the onely addition 〈◊〉〈◊〉 two ci∣phers, because that the Ducc. is worth 100 graines, and because that there is in this question 2 taries and 8 graines 48 graines is to be added, and take graines 132¾ for devisor of the said summe, seeing it is as much at grain. 132¾ per crow. as at Ducc. 132¾ per cro. 100, multiplying as well the one part as the other by 4 to bring them into quarters of graines, and after division by multiply∣ing the rest of the divisor by 20 and 12 to bring them into sols and deniers of gold, and all this done, it will come to crow. 2573. 12. 4 of marke which I must have in the said place of Placentia for the said summe of Ducc. above mentioned, as for Example,
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The proofe of this account is more apparently demonstrated, * 1.2 when this summe or parcell is Exchanged backe from Placentia to Naples, Bary, Lecchie, or other Cities of this Kingdome.