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.

Accept for part.

IF the party to whom your Bill of Exchange is directed, say unto you when you present him the Bill to be accepted, That he will accept it for part, in regard he hath no more pro∣vision in his hands from the party for whose account the Bill of Exchange is drawn, or that he oweth him no more upon Account, or other the like reasons best known to himself; In this case you may take such his acceptance for part, but then you presently go to a Nota∣ry publick, and cause the Bill to be protested for want of acceptance for the whole Sum therein mentioned, and you must send away that your Protest to the party which sent you the Bill, that he may thereupon have security (from the party which took up the Mony) for the remaining Sum. And so likewise at the time when the Bill shall fall due, you must go and receive the Sum for which it was ac∣cepted, and you may make a Receipt upon the Bill for the same, using these, or the like words; Received this 22 January 1654. in part of payment of this Bill twenty five pounds six shillings, I say, Received per me John N. And then you must cause Protest again to be made for non payment of the remaining Sum, and send the same back according as you for∣merly did for non-acceptance.