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. CCCLXXVII. Of the Exchanges of
Venice with London.
* 1.1VEnice doth exchange with
London, and giveth one Ducat of Liv. 6⅕ to have there posite 56¼ pence sterling: I demand then for Ducats 740, how many Livers of Sterling shall Venice have credit in London? This must be done as in the precedent account is shewed of Venice with Antwerp, and it will come to pounds 173. s. 8. and pence 9, which
Venice shall have credit in London, as by the Example more at large appeareth: 〈 math 〉〈 math 〉
* 1.2The proof of this account is manifested, when London doth rechange this sum of 173. 8.
9 d. for Venice; and here note, that Ʋsance from
Venice to London is 3 months, or 90 days, and double Ʋsance the said time doubled; and the like accounted back from
London to Venice.