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. CCXC. Of the Exchanges of Antwerp in Brabant, and Collen in Germany the Lower.

* 1.1IN both these places the Exchangers keep their Accompts in Livres, Sols, and Deniers of Gros∣ses, so that their Grosses are there accounted, as their Deniers or Pefening

And in the Custom of the Exchanges of these two places, they give the broken number to all other places, London only excepted, which they give not by the Gross, but by the Sol. or Shillings.

Antwerp and Colonia doth Ex∣change with Placentia Gross 125 for 1 Crown
Lions Gross 128 1 Crown
Rome Gross 130 1 Ducate
Genoa Gross 129 1 Crown of Gold
Millan Gross 127 1 Crown of Gold
Venetia Gross 94½ 1 Ducate
Florence Gross 112 1 Crown
Lucca Gross 104 1 Ducatoon
Naples Gross 91 1 Ducate
Lecchi Gross 90½ 1 Ducate
Bary Gross 91 1 Ducate
Palermo Gross 107½ 1 Ducate
Mesina Gross 107 1 Ducate
London Sold. 34½ 1 Pound Sterling
Valentia Gross 107 1 Ducate
Saragosa Gross 109 1 Ducate
Barselona Gross 112 1 Ducate
Siv. al. Med. Gross 106¼ 1 Ducate
Lisbon Gross 102 1 Ducate
Bolonia Gross 104 1 Ducatoon
Bergamo Gross 105 1 Ducatoon
Francfort Gross 78 1 Floren of 65 quar.
Vide Chap. 435. how these are calculated.

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