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.
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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.
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Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,
1700.
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Weights and measures -- Early works to 1800.
Coinage -- Early works to 1800.
Exchange -- Early works to 1800.
Balance of trade -- Early works to 1800.
Great Britain -- Commerce.
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"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." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A57390.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 5, 2024.
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CHAP. LVI. Of Acria, commonly S. John de Acria, and the Trade thereof.
ACria, being seated in the bottom of the
Mediterranean, and now strugling with its own ruines, hath yet by reason of its small but commodious Harbour some Trade maintained by the French, but principally by Venetians; who in small Vessels coast these parts, and pick up some of the Astan Commodities out of these Villages and Towns bordering upon the Sea∣coasts, as both in this place, Tripoly, Sidon, &c. the agreements of their weights and measures ob∣served by
Venetians, I will insert.
The
Cantar of Acria, commonly called by them the Cantar Tambaran, makes sotile in Venice 900 l. which produceth in England 603 l.
Rotolo 1 makes sotile pounds in
Venetia 9 l.
Braces 100 of Cloth of Gold and
Silk is in Acria 108 pic. Braces 100, of Cloth Woollen of Ve∣netia is in Acria 115 Picos.
Their Coins are generally the same with all the Dominions of the Grand Signior, which I shall declare coming to treat of Constantinople the
Metropolis of that Empire, and of Aleppo the principal City of Trade in this Country, therefore shall not need here to insist further there∣upon.