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.

CHAP. CXLV. Of Millan, and the Trade thereof.

* 1.1MIllan is a fair City, and the greatest of Lombardy, the Castle whereof is accounted im∣pregnable; it is very populous, and contains seven Miles in Circuit: it is furnished in matter of Trade with many great Merchants, or rather, as I may more properly call them, Shop-keepers, abounding in many rich Manufactures of Silks and Iron for Sword-blades, for Cannons, Muskets, and Pistols, &c. as Silk-Stockings, Chamlet, Fustians, Gold-Thread, and sundry other Commodities here dispersed into Savoy, France, and other adjoyning Countries.

* 1.2Their Accompts are kept in Millan by Pounds, Shillings, and Pence.

Or as they call them, Livres, Sol, and Deniers; 12 Deniers make a Sol, and 20 Sols a Livre, which Livre may be sterl. 12 pence, as I shall shew in the Tract of Exchanges, in 280 and 410 Chapters.

* 1.3The Coins Current in Millan are these:

A Ducate of Gold of Millan is incirca 100 Sol of that Money.

A Crown of Gold of the Sun is worth about 96 or 98 Sol.

A Crown of Gold Italian is 5 Livres, and 6 Sol Imperial.

A Ducate of Gold of Livres 5 and 18 Sol is Livres 6 Imperial.

A Ducace Imperial is esteemed 4 Livres.

A Ducate of Millan, or Imperial of Livres 4 per Duc. and so they count it in Exchange, the which they pay in Crowns of Italy at 101 Sol per Duc.

Note, that the Crown in Millan runs in Merchandise for Sol 110 and the Ducate for the same.

Note also, that the Imperial Coins are the current of this Country, but French, Italian, and Spanish, pass here also in Merchandise, as being placed between the two former, and subject to the last.

* 1.4The Weight of Millan is the Pound, and the 100 l. which is the Quintal, which 100 l. is

In	Venetia sotile	108	l.
Venetia gross	66
Florentia	97
Genoua	106
Lions	69
London	70

* 1.5In Millan they have two Braces, the Cloth, and the Silk, upon the 100 Braces Silk hath been made these Observations, and to have made

In London	43	Ells.
Antwerp	72
Frankfort	90
Dantzick	60
Vienna	63
Lions	44	Aulns.
Paris	41
Genoua	207	Palm.
Rouen	37	Auln.
Lisbon	43	Var.
Sevil	58
Madera	44
Venetia	78	Brac.
Lucques	86
Florence	88

* 1.6Which I refer to the experience of him that shall have occasion to make trial herein far∣ther, and so I will proceed to Cremona; as for the Exchanges here practised I refer you to the general Chapter thereof in the end of this Tract, viz. 280 and 410 Chapters.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Millan and the Trade thereof.
• * 1.2

  Accompts in Millan.
• * 1.3

  Coins in Mil∣lan.
• * 1.4

  Weights in Millan.
• * 1.5

  Measures of Millan.
• * 1.6

  Exchanges of Millan.