A double Mark Piece is 48 Grotes, 4 Head Pieces, or 120 Swaar.

A Double Shilling is 3 Grotes, or 15 Swaar. A Single ditto is 1 Grotes, or 7 Swaar. A Grote is 5 Swaar, and a Swaar is 2 Pence or Phennings.

Course of Bremen Exchanges.

Bremen gives to Amfterdam 128 to 130 Rixdollars of 72 Grotes for 100 Rixdollars of 50 Stivers B.

The Bremen Weight is about 3 per Cent. lighter than that of Amfterdam; fo that one may fay that 100 lb in Amfterdam makes 103 lb in Bremen, and 100 lb of Bremen 97 lb of Amfterdam.

IND

CHA P. XIX.

Of STETTIN.

N this Dutchy 36 Shillings Lubs is reckoned to a Rixdollar worth 54 Pence Sterling; and Draughts and Remittances between this Place and Amfterdam are made in Rixdollars at 4, 5, more or lefs, per Cent.

CHA P. XX.

Of BOLZANO.

THIS Place has very great Dealings in Exchanges with feveral Parts of Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland; and very great Fairs are kept here for the Exchanges. The

moft

most confiderable Money here, are the German Dollars and Rixdollars. The Rixdollars are of two Sorts, viz. of 90 Cruitzers, and of 93 Cruitzers. There is but a very small Difference between their Dollars, and the Dollars of Exchange of Frankfort. They do likewife make use of the Florin of 60 Cruitzers.

Bolzano gives to

The Current Prices of their Exchanges.

Lions, 80 to 90 Cruitzers for one Crown of 60 Sols Tournois in Specie.

Florence, 115 to 120 Cruitzers for one Peso
of 7 Livres.

Rome, 155 to 175 Cruitzers for one Romish
Crown.

Frankfort, 95 to 98 Rixdollars of 90 Cruit

zers for 100 Rixdollars.

Aug fburg and Noremberg, the fame.

Bergam, the Rixdollar of 93 Cruitzers for 150 to 170 Sols.

Bologn, the Florin of 60 Cruitzers for 55 to 79 Sols.

Venice, the Rixdollar of 93 Cruitzers for 130

to 140 Sols Banco.

Ancona, the Florin of 60 Cruitzers for 55 to 60 Bayocks.

St. Gall, 100 ditto for 110 to 115 Florins.

С НА Р.

CHAP. XXI.

Of the EASTLAND COUNTRIES,

IN

SECT. I.

Of DENMARK and NORWAY.

N thefe Countries Accounts are kept in Marks and Shillings, reckoning 16 Danish Shillings to a Mark.

And their Monies go under the following Denominations, viz.

A Rixdollar is 6 Danish Marks.

A common Dollar, or Danish Crown, is 4 Danish Marks.

A double ditto is 8 ditto.

A Sletch Dollar, or Half Crown, is 2 ditto. A Rix Ort, or Rixdollar, is 24 Danish Shillings, A Juftus Judex, or an Ebrew, which went formerly at 2 Marks, or 32 Danish Shillings, is now 28 ditto.

A Rix Mark is 20 ditto.

A Common Mark is 16 ditto.

A Danish Gludftad or Gotterp Dutgen is 6 Danish Shillings.

The Foreign Dutgen goes at 5 Danish Shillings, Their Weights. 10 lb is a Stone, and 12 Stone. is a Cantar, or 120 lb. 32 Stone, or 320 lb is a Shippound: And 100 lb in London makes in thefe Places about 92 ib.

Their Measure for Cloth is an Aun about half an English Ell; or 100 Norway Ells make 67

Yards

Yards in London, 101 in Sweden, 913 in Holland, 108 in Hamburgh, 112 in Breslaw, and 101 in Dantzick.

Their Measure for Corn is a Ton, which holds 4 Bufhels in London.

about

t

110.

Their Measure for Liquor is a Kan, and a Pot; Pots is a Kan, and it holds near one Gallon Winchester Measure.

4

The Current Prices of their Exchanges.

Thefe Places exchange with Hamburgh at the reciprocal Ufance of 8 Days Sight, and they give 14 per Cent. more or lefs in Danish Crowns to receive Rixdollars in Hamburgh.

To Amfterdam they give more or lefs than 10 per Cent. in Danish Crowns in Favour of Holland, to receive Rixdollars in Amfterdam.

To France, more or less than 80 Rixdollars in Danish Crowns, for 100 Ecus of 60 Sols in Specie. To London, the Rixdollar for between 45 and 58 Pence Sterling.

To Leipfick, 84 more or lefs Rixdollars in Danish Crowns, for 100 Rixdollars, to be received in new Pieces in Leipfick.

IN

SECT. II.

Of POLAND.

N Cracow fome keep their Accounts in Pence, Groffes, and Florins, reckoning 18 Pence to a Grofs, and 30 Grofs to a Florin; and others keep them in Rixdollars and Groffes, reckoning 90 Grofs to a Rixdollar.

Their common Coins are as follow:

18 Groffes make one Ort, 30 Groffes or Grofhen one Florin.

A Specie Dollar is 40 Grofhen, Value 2s. Sterl. A Rixdollar is 5 Orts, or 90 Grofhen, Value 4 Shillings and 6 Pence Sterling.

A Gold Ducat is 6 Florins, Value

9s. Sterl. A Cross Dollar and a Specie Dollar go at be tween 3 and 4 Florins apiece, there being an Agio upon them fometimes amounting to between 10 and 15 per Cent.

The common Weight of Poland is the lb, of which 136 b is a Quintar, and makes in London about 114 lb.

Their Measure for Cloth is the Aun, and is in Length about half an English Ell; but their Linens are fold by the Shock, which contains about English Ells.

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London exchanges with this Kingdom Via Amfterdam and Hamburgh.

IN

SECT. III.

Of RIGA.

N this Place Accounts are kept in Rixdollars and Groshen, reckoning 90 Groshen to a Dollar. The common Coins are, viz.

A Rixdollar valued at 15 Riga Marks, or 4s. 6 d. Sterling.

A Polish Gold or Florin is 5 Riga Marks, or 30 Grofhen.

A Riga Mark is 6 Grofs, or 18 Whittens, or White Shillings.

A Grafs or Grofhen is 3 Whittens, or 6 Black d°. A Vording is 1 Grofs, or 4 Whittens, or 9 d°.