PAIR.
PAir (as the French call it) is to equalize, match or make even the Mony of Ex∣change from one place with that of another, when I take up so much Mony per Exchange in one place, to pay the just Value thereof in
The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
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- The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.
- Author
- Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
- Publication
- London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,
- 1700.
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- Subject terms
- Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
- Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
- Exchange -- Early works to 1800.
- Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
- Great Britain -- Commerce.
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"The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 17, 2024.
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other kind of Mony in another place, with∣out having respect to the price currant of Ex∣change for the same, but only to what the Monies are worth, and do currantly pass for in each place; according whereunto is easily found out the Profit and Loss, which from time to time is made in whatever Parcels of Mony drawn or remitted by Exchange: and it is likewise delivering Mony at Pair, when there is received in one Town just so much Mony as was delivered by Exchange in ano∣ther Town; as when I deliver by Exchange 100 l. sterling at York to receive 100 l. sterling at London, which is done only by the Loss of time.