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.
Author
Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.
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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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"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. CCLXXXVI. Of the Exchanges of Lechy in Calabria.

* 1.1IN Lechy the Exchangers keep their Accompts, and have their Moneys as in Naples, the Me∣polis of that Kingdom, which is in Ducates, Tarins, Grains, and Cavalies accounted in 5, 20 and 12, and in Exchanging it differs not much from the Custom of Naples, specified in the former Leaf.

Lechy doth Exchange with Placentia Grains 134 for 1 Crown
Lions Grains 136 1 Crown
Rome Grains 135 1 Ducate
Genoa Grains 135 1 Crown of Gold
Millan Grains 134 1 Crown of Gold
Venetia Duc. 101½ 100 Ducates
Florence Duc. 131 100 Crowns
Lucca Duc. 116 100 Ducatoons
Naples Duc. 102 100 Ducates
Bary Duc. 100 100½ Ducates
Palermo Duccate 1 22¼ Carlins
Mesina Duccate 1 23 Carlins
Antw. & Col. Ducate 1 87 Grosses
London Ducate 1 61 Pence Sterl.
Valentia Ducate 1 17. 10 Sols
Saragosa Ducate 1 18 Sol.
Barselona Ducate 1 18. 1 Sol.
Siv. al. Med. Ducate 1 328 Marvedies
Lisbon Ducate 1 348 Raies
Bollonia Grains 115 1 Ducatoon
Bergamo Grains 114 1 Ducatoon
Francfort Ducate 1 75½ Quarentins.

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