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.

Bill without Direction.

IN case a Bill of Exchange do come with∣out a Direction on it, that is, if it be not directed to any Man, only the Drawer has set his Name to it, but not directed it to the Party on whom he design'd to charge it; yet if in his Letter of Advice to his Friend to whom the Bill is payable, or to whom it is sent to get accepted, the Bill is men∣tion'd to be drawn on such a Man, naming a Man's Name; this Friend to whom the Bill is sent, ought to present the Bill to that Man to be accepted, according to Advice: And in case he shall refuse to accept it, be∣cause it is not directed to him, the Party to whom the Bill was sent ought to make Pro∣test for Non-acceptance, for he protests a∣gainst the Drawer in not having taken sufficient care that the Bill might be accep∣ted by some body, according to Custom, and the Drawer is justly to bear the Charges thereof for his Omission and Oversight; tho I cannot see but if the Party, to whom the Bill is presented to be accepted, have likewise Advice thereof, and sufficient ground or reason to have accepteed it, if the Bill had had a Direction on it to him∣self, he may accept the Bill, altho the Di∣rection to him be omitted; but it must be confess'd it is an Oversight and an Error in the Drawer, in omitting to direct his Bill of Exchange; and if his Friend do suffer it to be protested, I conceive, he shall have sufficiently punish'd him for his Error.