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. CCCCXLVII. Of the Exchanges of
London with Antwerp.
* 1.1LOndon doth exchange with
Antwerp, and giveth one pound sterling, to have in
Antwerp posito Shillings 35. 6 pence or gross, money of Antwerp, I demand then for 445 l. 15 and six
pence sterling, how many pounds Flemish shall I have in
Antwerp? First, multiply the pounds sterling by
20, and bring them into shillings, and then by 12 to bring them into
pence sterling, do also the same with the pounds Flemish, bringing them first into shillings Flemish, by a multi∣plication of 20, and then to pence or gross by multiplication of 12
d. accounting the 35 s. 6 d. for l. Flem.
1. 15. 6 d. and say then by the Rule of Three, If one
pound sterling give 35. 6 d Flemish, the price proposed, what will 445 l. 15. 6 sterling give? which will make l. 791. 5. 0 d. Flemish, for which you must have credit in Antwerp.〈 math 〉〈 math 〉
* 1.2The proof of the Rule is more apparent when that Antwerp doth Exchange for London;* 1.3and note, That the account is the same when that London doth exchange for Colonia, Amster∣d••m, and other places in the Low-Countries.