The purchasers pattern In two parts, containing. I. The true value of any purchase of land or houses by lease or otherwise: also, a moderate discourse of usury. With many observations, and tables of intrest and rebatement. II. The true measuring of land, board, timber, and gauging of cask: and discovering the false rules and deceits which are used by many therein. With many other rules and tables of daily use for most men. The second edition corrected and enlarged. By Hen. Philippes.

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The purchasers pattern In two parts, containing. I. The true value of any purchase of land or houses by lease or otherwise: also, a moderate discourse of usury. With many observations, and tables of intrest and rebatement. II. The true measuring of land, board, timber, and gauging of cask: and discovering the false rules and deceits which are used by many therein. With many other rules and tables of daily use for most men. The second edition corrected and enlarged. By Hen. Philippes.

Author

Phillippes, Henry, d. 1677?

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London :: Printed by R. & W. Leybourn, for T. Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Church-yard,

1654.

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Contents

• frontispiece
• title page
• To the Reader.
• A Table of the Contents of this Book.
• These Books following are sold by Thomas Pierrepont, at the Sun in Pauls Churchyard.
• errata
• THE PURCHASERS PATTERN.
  • A Table shewing the true value of one pound yearly Rent, to continue any number of years under 31, and from thence to 100 years, increasing by every tenth year, after the Rates of 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and 12 in the hundred, reckoning Interest upon Interest.
    • The Use of these Tables.
      • First, to know the price of any An∣nuity, to continue any number of years.
      • II. There is another very necessary question easily resolved by these Tables, and that is, When any one doth ask of you such a summe of money, or so many yeers purchase for a parcel of land, lease, or house, to know what profit be allowes you for your money.
      • III. All this which hath been spoken of pur∣chasing of Leases, you may apply to Fines for the abatement of a greater or lesser part of the Rent of any thing.
  • OF Reversions.
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      • The Use of this Table is thus.
        • I. If you are to purchase the Reversion of a piece of Land.
        • II. The like course you must take in purchasing the Reversion of Houses.
        • III. A Tenant hath some term of years in a Lease, and either he or his Landlord desires to have his years increased to any certain number.
  • A New and Exact Table of Interest, shewing the true Interest due upon any Sum of Money for any time at the Rate of 6 per Centum.
    • TABLES OF INTEREST At Six per Centum.
      • The use of these Tables.
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      • The Use of these Tables.
        • I. If a bond be dated the 10th. of February, when is the half year, or 183 days out?
        • II. How many days is it from the 10th of Au∣gust. to the last of December?
        • III. Thus, if you would know how many dayes it is from the tenth of August to the ninth of February.
        • IV. To know what is the true use of any summe of money for any number of dayes, after the rate of six per Centum.
  • OF Rebatement.
    • TABLES OF REBATEMENT, At Six per Centum.
      • The use of these Tables.
        • I.
        • II.
        • III.
        • IV.
• title page
• TO THE READER.
• Geometricall Observations. Of measure, which consists onely in length.
  • To measure things which have length and breadth, as Board, Glasse, Pave∣ments, Tyling, Wainscot, and such like.
  • How to measure any piece of Land.
    • I. How to measure a square piece of Land.
    • II. To measure a Triangular, or three-fided piece of Land.
    • III. To measure a Circular piece of Land.
  • To measure any piece of Land.
  • Of the measuring of Solid Bodies.
    • The Demonstration of this Table.
    • The use of the Table of Tim∣ber-measure.
  • To measure Timber, which is not paytle squared.
  • To measure round Timber.
    • The demonstration of this Table.
  • To measure Tapering Timber.
  • Of Gauging.
    • The demonstration of the Ta∣ble and Gauging-line.
    • Of the Gauging-line.
    • Of the use of this Table and Line.
      • To finde the content of any Vessel in Wine-measure.
      • Of the measuring of Ale or Beer-Vessels.
  • Of wet measures.
  • Dry measures.
  • Of weights.
  • Observations about Gold, Silver, and other Metals.
  • A way to try Gold, whether it he true or counterfeit.
  • The use of the two fore-going Tables of the Assize of Bread.
    • The use of this Table.
  • A TABLE of ACCOVNTS For the ready Casting up of the true value of any great number of any Com∣modities.
    • The use of this Table of Accounts.
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    • The use of the Table of Kings.
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