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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Title: 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.
Author: Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
Publication: London :: Printed for Thomas Horne ...,; 1700.
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Subject terms: 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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CHAP. CCCXCVII. Of the Exchanges of Placentia with Francfort.

* 1.1PLacentia doth Exchange with Francfort, and giveth Crowns 100 of Mark to have here Crow. 110½ of 93 Quarentines per Crown: I demand then for 800 Crowns of Mark, how many Flo∣rins of 60 Quarentines per Flor. shall I have in Francfort? Multiply the said Crow. 800 by Crow. 110½ per cent. cutting off the two last figures, the which multiply by 20 and by 12, to make them Sols and Deniers of Gold, and it comes to 884 Crowns of Quarentines 93, the which to make Florins, must be multiplied by 93 Quarentines, and they are 82212 Quarentines, from which cut off the last figure, and take ⅙ of the rest, and they then do make Florins 1370, and the tenth remaining, with the 2 Quarentines, which is the figure cut off, and it maketh 12, from which taking ⅓ to make them Sols, by reason that 3 Quarentines make one Sol, and they are Florins 1370, and Sols 4, which is the credit that must be rendred in Francfort, as shall appear by Example: 〈 math 〉〈 math 〉

* 1.2The proof hereof appeareth when Francfort Exchangeth for Placentia. And thus much shall serve for the Exchanges practised à Dritura from Placentia.

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Exchanges of Placentia with Francfort.

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