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.

No body at home.

IF a Bill of Exchange is sent you to get ac∣cepted, and there be no body at home, at the House or Place of abode of the Party on whom the Bill is drawn: Or if, when your Bill is due you cannot meet the Party at home, nor any one else to pay the Mony on his behalf, you must cause Protest to be made, either for Non-acceptance or Non-payment, at his Dwelling-house or Lodg∣ing, in his Absence; which is as effectual, according to the known Law of Merchants and the Rules of Equity, (being made in seasonable time) as if the same had been made speaking to him in Person: for you cannot be bound (it being beyond your power) to make him, on whom the Bill is drawn, abide at home; but in reason he is bound to attend his own business at season∣able hours, and it concerns him to keep a good Correspondence with his Friends, especially in matters of Bills of Exchange, whereof he cannot be ignorant.