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.

A Bill drawn at one place, and payable at another.

IF a Bill of Exchange be drawn upon a man living at one place, or City, and pay able to a man living at another place, and that the mony is not to be paid in the City, or Town, where the party on whom the bill is drawn doth dwell, but in some other City or Town where the party to whom the Bill is payable doth live, or at a place for, and at which there is a usual course of Exchange, and that the party on whom the Bill is drawn doth dwell some score of miles off from thence: Such a Bill as this, so soon as it comes to your hands you may send it down to some friend in the same Town, where he on whom it is drawn doth live, to get acceptance thereof, and then to be returned to you; but when the Bill falls due, you need not seek farther for payment than at the house, or in the place where the Bill is made payable, and in default thereof you must there cause protest to be made in due form: As for instance, suppose a Bill of Exchange be drawn from Rouen, and di∣rected thus To Mr. William P. Merchant at Southampton, but made payable thus; Pay this my first of Exchange to Mr. Samuel B. or Assigns in London; or thus, Pay this my first Bill of Exchange at the house of Mr. Roger C. in London, to the order of Mr. Ben∣jamin L. &c. this Bill must be sent down to Southampton to some friend there to present to Mr. William P. to get accepted, but if he refuse to accept the Bill, you may either protest at Southampton for non-acceptance, or else the friend there may return the Bill, with his answer of refusal by a Letter to London to his friend that sent him the Bill, and by the help of such a Letter protest may be made at London for non-acceptance; But now when this Bill is due, you must then only endeavour to get payment at London ac∣cording to the express words and tenor of the Bill; and if no order be given at the house of Mr. Roger C. in London for payment, or if a particular house be not expressed, but only the Bill is payable in London, if you have not your mony brought you with∣in the three days after the Bill is due, you must cause protest for non-payment to be made in London according to the usual manner.