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 16, 2024.
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To his honoured friend and Kinsman, Mr. LEVVES ROBERTS, Merchant.
HOw ere our ruder Countrey-men despise
The Mysteries of Trade and Merchandise;
With whom 'tis counted Learning but to know
The price of Runts, how Sheepe and Cattell goe:
Such as (for COINE) doe onely understand
That which with them doth passe from hand to hand:
And as for Weights and Measures, find no ground
For any other thanthe Yard and Pound:
So as thy BOOKE, to these that judgement lacke,
Seemes of lesse use then an old Almana•…•…ke:
How ere (I say) their ignorance incline
To make wast paper of this Worke of thine;
Yet please t'admit one from thy native Clime,
And of thy Blood too, to speake truth in Rime.
A verse protects not falshood, and a Lye
Is not excus'd by being good Poetrie;
That's but to sinne more wittily, and be
Guiltie of a more quaint impietie:
Such praise You'd scorne; and (though the vice of Time
Make Sin in prose, but Courtesie in rime)
Your better thoughts would ne'r with patience brooke
That any damne himselfe to praise your BOOKE.
Ile then bring no fain'd Eulogies t'invite
The thrifty Buyers colder Appetite;
Or (like a begging Prologuist) forespeake
A faire Applause, for feare the Author breake:
No thy Composures farre transcend that fate,
And scorne alike the Vulgars love and hate.
They that (like Thee) refus'd no paine or toyle
With forreigne Trade t'enrich their Native soile,
And (like discreet Camelions) can comply
With each Mans humor for Commoditie:
That have read Kingdomes over, and can tell
What Men, for Letters put together, spell;
And understand too even the most perplext
And hidden meaning of that darker Text:
These and these onely are allow'd to bee
The equall Iudges of thy BOOKE and THEE.
And sure Thy merit cannot want it's meed;
For doing well's rewarded in the deed.
M. E.