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 June 17, 2024.
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CHAP. XLVII. Of Bithinia, and the Cities thereof.
* 1.1ON the North-side of the Phrygias is seated
Bithinia, which is famoused, First, for the Vi∣ctory of
Alexander against the Persians, of whom he slew 20000; Secondly, for Mount Stella, where Pompey overthrew
Mithridates; and Tamberlain with 800000 Tartarians encoun∣tred Bajazet with 500000, where 200000 lost. their lives, and
Baja••et in his pride of heart taken and pen'd up in an Iron Cage, against whose bars he beat out his brains; Thirdly, for Nice, where the first General Council was held Anno 314, to repel the Arrian Heresie; and, Fourthly, Chalcedon, where the fourth General Council was assembled to repel the Nestorian Here∣tie, where yet in Anno 1620, the Inhabitants do shew to strangers the place of this Assembly by tradition in manner of an Oval Circle built purposely for this occasion; and Lastly, here is
Bursis, by some Prusa, the seat of the
Ottoman Kings in Asia till they gained Adrianople in Europe, which was done by Mahomet the First: Of the
Trade thereof, a word in my passage.