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.

Acceptance by Wife, or Servant.

A Mans Wife, or Friend, or Servant cannot accept a Bill of Exchange for him in his absence, without sufficient autho∣rity from him by a Letter of Attorny un∣der his hand and seal, delivered in the pre∣sence of sufficient witness for the doing thereof; a mans word, (as if he should say to his Wife, Friend, or Servant, If any Bills of Exchange shall come drawn on me in my absence, accept them for me) is not sufficient, neither will a bare Letter serve, written to his Wife, Friend, or Servant; but there must be hand and seal, and wit∣nesses, which (if occasion be) may prove his legal consent to such acceptance: For indeed, it is against reason that any man should be bound to the payment of any sum of mony without valuable consi∣deration, or without his own free consent; It is true, if the Wife or Servant have for∣merly accepted several Bills of Exchange in the like kind, and when the party on whom they were drawn hath come to town, he hath approved thereof, and paid the bills at the time, and so the Wife, or Ser∣vant are wont to do from time to time, and that this can be proved, I conceive it will come very close to him; but we hold a legal order for acceptance ought to be granted by Letter of Attorny under hand and seal, as I have already shewed.