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.

Make the Directions of Bills on the inside.

THE Directions of Bills of Exchange is made by the Italians and Dutch usually on the backside of the Bill, and the English in their Outland Bills do (for the most part) writ•• after their Copy, but the French do or∣dinarily write the Direction of their Bill of Exchange in the inside of the Bill beneath on the left hand thereof; and for my part, I conceive it more convenient to write the Di∣rection of Bills of Exchange under the Bills on the left hand, according to the custom of the French, and of our English Inland Bills, than on the middle on the backside, as Ita∣lians and Dutch do use to do; for the paper being but little on which a Bill of Exchange is usually made, if the Direction be on the backside, there remaineth small place to write Assignments upon, and a Receipt for the Mony, when paid; whereas if the Di∣rection be written on the inside of the Bill, all the outside of the Bill may serve to write the Assignments, (which many times, especi∣ally in Outland Bills, are three or four upon a Bill) and the Receipt for the Mony, when it shall be paid, the spare place on the inside of the Bill serving only to write the Ac∣ceptance.