CHA P. XII. Of VIENNA. N this Place they keep their Accounts, and IN reckon by Florins, Cruitzers, and Phennings, reckoning 8 Phennings to a Cruitzer, and 60 Cruitzers to a Florin, and 90 Cruitzers, or I Florins to a Rixdollar or an Ecu. SECT. I. Of their Current Money. A French Louis d'Or, and a Spanish Pistole, are each valued at about 7 Florins. A Venetian Sequin, or Chequan, at 4 Florins. An Imperial Ducat, at 4 Florins. A Bavarian Ducat, at 3 Florins. 924 A Venetian Crown, at 2 Florins 18 Cruitzers. A Rixdollar in Specie, at 2 Florins, or 4 Shillings and 6 Pence Sterling. The Imaginary Rixdollar, at 1 Florins, or 90 Cruitzers. The Imaginary Florin, at 60 Cruitzers. Cruitzers. The 7 ditto, between 6 and 7 Cruitzers. A Grofs is 3 Cruitzers 2 Deniers; a Patre is 4 Cruitzers; a Phenning is one Denier; and 3 Deniers is a Dreyer. T SECT. II. Of their Weights and Measures. HEIR Measures are of two Sorts, viz. for Linen, 103 Auns make 100 Yards in London. For Woollen, 113 Auns make 100 Yards in London. Their Weight is a Pound, which in fome Commodities is divided into 32 Loodts; and in fome, into 28 Pints. Their 100 lb makes in London about 123 Vienna gives lb: SECT. III. The Current Prices of their Exchanges. (Lions, 75 to 78 Rixdollars of 90 Cruitzers for 100 Ecus of 60 Sols in Specie. Frankfort, 85 to 95 ditto for 100 Rixdollars of Frankfort. Noremberg and Augfburg, 100 Rixdollars for Venice, 90 to 100 Rixdollars for 100 Ducats St. Gall, 100 Florins of 60 Cruitzers for 105 Holland, one Rixdollar for between 50 and 60 Stivers. London, ditto for between 4 and 5 Shillings Sterling. I Ne CHA P. XIII. Of AUGSBURG. N this Place they keep their Accounts, and reckon their Monies the fame Way as they do in Vienna. SECT. I. Of their Ufances. T HEIR fingle Ufance is 15 Days, 30 Days is double Ufance, 23 Days is 1 Ufance, and 8 Days is half Ufance, commencing from the Time of accepting, all Holidays and Sundays excluded; and the fame Method holds and continues as to the 5 Days of Grace, which are to commence after Ufance is out; which Time the Merchants may wait, without Prejudice or Danger, provided Sundays nor Holidays are included in the Number of Days. No Perfon is obliged to accept a Venetian Bill on a Friday; and what Bills fall due on a Sunday, may be demanded on the Saturday before; and fuch Payments are legal and warrantable: And all Bills at Sight must be paid within 24 Hours, after which Time a Proteft is warrantable; and all Bills that are payable in two or three Days, or in a very fhort Time, are upon the fame Footing as those Bills that are on Sight, nor are they to be allowed any aný refpite Days. But all other Bills, of what Number of Days foever, upon half, whole, or more Ufance; and likewife the Frankfort Retorni, Ultimo Junii, Ultimo Novembris, or whatsoever Bills made payable upon certain exprefs Days, fhall all be allowed, without Diftinction, five Days of Grace; and to this End only, that the Creditor, or Poffeffor of the Bills, may wait fo long, without Prejudice to himself, to fatisfy the Drawer, if he can't get the Money upon the first Demand. Not that the Days of Grace are to encourage People to retard Payments out of their mere Humour; but, on the contrary, they may be obliged to make Payment good on the very Day the Bill shall fall due, to prevent their laying claim to the Days of Grace, purely for their delaying the fame. SECT. II. The Current Prices of the Exchanges of Augsburg. Augsburg gives to [France, 60 to 70 Cruitzers for the French Crown of 60 Stivers. Geneva, Rixdollars for Crowns at fo much per Cent. Amfterdam, ditto for Rixdollars at so much per Cent. Frankfort, ditto for 100 Dollars of Exchange. St. Gall, 100 Florins of 60 Cruitzers for 1 10 to 115 Florins. Bolzano, 100 Rixdollars for 95 to 98 Rix dollars. They exchange with London most commonly by the Way of Amfterdam, Lions, or Bourdeaux. Augsburg exchanges with many other Places, giving either the Cruitzer, the Florin of 60 Cruitzers, or the Rixdollar of 90 Cruitzers. I CHA P. XIV. Of LEIPSICK and NAUMBURG. N both these Places their Money is expreffed, and Merchants Books and Accounts are kept in Rixdollars, Groffes, and in Phennings, or Deniers. And at both Places Fairs are kept, at which Times moft Bills of Exchange are payable. There are three Fairs kept in every Year, and each Fair is opened by Proclamation on the first Day, and by the fame is broke up on the last Day. The first Fair always begins on New Year's Day, unless it happens to be on a Sunday, then it is opened on the following Day. The second is called Eafter Fair, and begins on the third Monday after Eafter. The third is called Michaelmas Fair, and begins the first Monday after Michaelmas Day; if Michaelmas Day happens to be on a Sunday, it begins on the Monday following. At Naumburg, they have but one Fair in the Year, which is that of St. Peter's and St. Paul's: It begins always upon that Day, and holds 8 Days, but those of Leipfick hold 14 Days a-piecè. SECT. |