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. CCCLXXX. Of the Exchanges of Venice with Bergamo.
* 1.1VEnice doth Exchange with
Bergamo, and giveth one Crown of 7 Lib: to have in
Bergamo Sols 145½ posito, I demand then for
Duc. 4220⅔, how many Livers will it amount un∣to? Multiply the said sum of Ducats by 6 l. ⅕, and it will amount to lib. 26168. 2. 8, of which take the 1/7 to make them
Crowns, and the remainders divide by 20 and 12, and they will be
Crowns 3738. 6. 1. the which must be multiplied by lib. 7.
5. 6. which are the said lib. 145½ Sols, and of the multiplication will come lib. 27196. 3. 2. which must be had in
credit in the said place of Bergamo, as by this Example following: 〈 math 〉〈 math 〉
* 1.2The proof of the said Rule is discerned when this parcel is Remitted back from Bergans to Venice: And thus much shall serve to have said of the Exchanges of Venice, a word of the Orders and
Commissions here practised in matters of Exchanges.