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. CCLXXVIII. Of the Exchanges of Lions, Paris, and Rouen in France.

* 1.1IN Lions, Paris, Rouen, and through all France, they keep their Accounts in Livres, Sols, Deniers and Turnois, and they here do exchange in Crowns of the Sun, and Deniers of the Sun; this Livre is also called in some places of France, a Frank, and 3 Livres or Franks is ac∣counted for the said Crown of the Sun, and the Crown of Italy by a Decree and Standard of the Country passeth at 58 Sol. of the said Crown.

And in the Custom of Exchanging, it giveth the entire and whole Sum or Number, either one Crown, or one hundred Crowns of the Sol.

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Lions doth exchange with Placentia Crowns 100 for 103½ Crowns
Rome Crowns 100 99½ Ducat
Genoua Crown 1 66½ Sol. of Gold
Millan Crown 1 115 Sol.
Venice Crowns 100 116¾ Duc. Bank.
Florence Crowns 100 106½ Crown
Lucca Crowns 100 117½ Ducatoons
Naples Crown 1 124 Grains
Lechi Crown 1 122½ Grains
Bari Crown 1 123 Grains.
Palermo Crown 1 29½ Carlins
Mesina Crown 1 29½ Carlins
Antw & Col. Crown 1 96 Gross
London Crown 1 62 Pence sterl.
Valentia Crown 1 23 Sol. 10 Den.
Saragosa Crown 1 23 Sol. 8 Den.
Barcelona Crown 1 24 Sol.
Siv. al. Med. Crown 1 436 Marvedes
Lisbon Crown 1 485 Rais
Bollonia Crowns 100 119½ Ducatoons
Bergamo Crowns 100 119⅕ Ducatoons
Franckford Crown 1 104 Quarentins
Vide Chap. 302. and so following, of the Calculation of the Exchanges of this place.

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