The scales of commerce and trade: ballancing betwixt the buyer and seller, artificer and manufacture, debitor and creditor, the most general questions, artificiall rules, and usefull conclusions incident to traffique: comprehended in two books. The first states the ponderates to equity and custome, all usuall rules, legall bargains and contracts, in wholesale ot [sic] retaile, with factorage, returnes, and exchanges of forraign coyn, of interest-money, both simple and compounded, with solutions from naturall and artificiall arithmetick. The second book treats of geometricall problems and arithmeticall solutions, in dimensions of lines, superficies and bodies, both solid and concave, viz. land, wainscot, hangings, board, timber, stone, gaging of casks, military propositions, merchants accounts by debitor and creditor; architectonice, or the art of building. / By Thomas Willsford Gent.

QUESTION II. What will the interest of 300 L amount unto, if for∣born 3 weeks, after the rate of 6 L per centum per annum?

The decimal for 3 weeks is 1.003358. which multiplied by the principal 300 L produceth 301, 007, 400. from whence cut off 6 places and reduce them, you will find 301 L 0 ss 1 D 3 q. the encrease of 300 L for the time required, viz. 1 L 0 ss 1 d 3 q.