To Antwerp, 30 Days after Date. To Genoa, 20 Days after Date, To Venice, 2 Months after Date. And they do allow 14 Days of Grace: but the Laws of Exchange are not fo much regarded in Spain as in other Places of Exchange. Their Measure is the Cane of 8 Palms, 43 whereof makes about 75 Yards in London. Their Weight is a Kintal of 100 lb, 3 whereof is a Cargo. Wool is fold by the Rove of 30 lb. 100 lb of London makes about 102 lb here; but it makes about 92 Ib of their Wool Weight. Corn is fold by a Measure called a Quarter, 4 of which make a Salmo, and 2 Quarters is a Cargo or Load of 360 lb Weight. The Quarter is the fame as the Quarter at London. A CHA P. XXIV. Of FRANCE. CCOUNTS are kept throughout this Dominion in Livres, Sols, and Deniers, reckoning 12 Deniers one Sol, and 20 Sols one Livre, or Frank. Their Coins are as follow: In GOLD.] A double Lewis d'Or, the intrinfick Value whereof is 22 Livres; but it has paffed current among them for 28 to 30 Livres. A fingle Lewis d'Or was also coined for II Livres, and has rifen and fallen in the Price the fame as the double one. The first is what they call a double Pistole, and the latter a fingle one. In SILVER. A Crown, the intrinfick Value whereof was 3 Livres, or 60 Sols; but it has änd does now país current at a much higher Rate. This Crown hath its Fractions, viz. according to the firft Value is 1 Livre 10 Sols. is called a Frank, and is one Livre: Crown is 15 Sols. Frank is 10 Sols. Frank is Sols. 5 They have alfo a little Piece, called Une Petite Piece, which goes current for 4 Sols. In BRASS and SILVER.] There is only the Sols coined, of which there are two Sorts (though there is no Difference in the intrinfick Value) an Old one and a New. The old one has paffed for 12 Deniers, and the other for about 15 Deniers, and for no other Reason than because the Stamp of the one appears more plain than that on the other. In COPPER.] A Liard or Farthing, being of a Sol, or 3 Deniers. A Double, of twice the Value of a Denier, and fometimes paffes for a Liard. A Denier or Penny, being of a Sol. N. B. The N. B. The Denier is only current in the fouthern Parts of France, there being none of them to be seen on this Side of Poitiers, which is about 50 Leagues beyond Paris. or 13 And further, no foreign Piece of Gold or Silver is current in France, unless the fingle and double Piftoles of Spain, which have paffed there for 12 Livres; and in fome of the Provinces of the Kingdom, the People are fo little acquainted with any Sort of Money, that when Strangers happen to pass, and have no French Money about them, thefe People do neither understand, nor will they accept of any foreign Money at any Rate. But in any Town of Trade there are Merchants and Brokers that deal in Exchange, and understand foreign Money, who will give a pretty reafonable Rate for it; and my Author fays, that he has seen 3 Livres 16 Sols given for an English Crown Piece, and proportionable for the leffer Pieces of Silver. However, in Paris, and many other Cities in France, no foreign Pieces of Gold or Silver are fuffered to pafs current, but must be carried to one of the Mints (of which the King has many established about this Kingdom) to be melted down, and changed for the Money or Coins of France, which at moft Times is done at a very great Lofs to the Owner. The Merchants and Traders in France, to fave the Trouble of telling their Silver, Copper, and Brafs Money, do generally put it into Bags; viz. Crowns, Half Crowns, and Crown Pieces, are for the moft Part put into Bags of 2000 or 3000 Livres, allowing about 5 Sols per 1000 Livres for the Bag. The fmaller Pieces of Silver, and the Y 3 petty petty Pieces, are put into Bags of 100 Livres, and fometimes of 200 Livres apiece, detaining the Value of a petty Piece for the Bag, and frequently 6 Sols. The Sols are likewife put up in Bags of 109 Livres, more or less, and allow 2 Sols per Bag. The Quarter Sols, Liards, or Doubles, are put into Bags of 10 Livres, and do allow one Sol per Bag; and if there be above that Sum in the Bag, they do allow 2 Sols for the Bag. As for the Deniers, they roll them up in Papers of 4, 5, or 6 Sols in a Roll, but thefe laft Pieces are seldom to be met with, unless among the poorer Sort of People. In great Dealings, the Merchants in making their Payments, do only weigh the Bags, and if the Receiver finds bad Money in the Bag, when he comes to open it, the Payer makes it good; but if there. hould be a Deficiency in the Sum, it must be challenged at the Scale, otherwife 'tis not recoverable. The Weights of Paris. 2. Seconds is one Prime, 2 Primes is one Grain, 24 Grains is one Pennyweight, 3 Penny-weights is one Dram, 8 Drams is one Qunce, 8 Ounces is one Mark, 2 Marks makes one Pound, 100 lb is one Quintal, and 10 Quintals is one Millier. 112 lb Avoirdupois in London is a little more than 100 lb at Paris'; and the Weights of Paris are 1 per Cent. heavier than thofe of Amfterdam; that is to fay, 100 lb of Amfterdam weighs 98 th of Paris, and 100 15 of Paris weighs 101 lb of Amfterdam. I I 3 The Corn Measure of Paris. 4 Litron is one Peck, 4 Pecks is one Bufhel, 3 Bushels is one Minot, 2 Minots is one Mine, 2 Mines is one Sextier, and 12 Sextiers is one Muid. But for Qats' Oats, they reckon 24 Bufhels to one Sextier, and 12 Sextiers to one Muid; and 19 Sextiers of Corn is reckoned to be equal to about 10 Quarters of London, or 27 Muids or one Laft at Amfterdam, and the Sextier of good Wheat weighs betwixt 244 and 248 b Mark Weight. ORLEANS.] The Muid of Orleans ought to weigh 600 lb Weight, and is compofed of 12 Mines, equal to 2 Sextiers of Paris, 5 Bufhels of Bourdeaux. The Afhnec of Macon makes 1 Sextiers of Paris, and 3 Bushels of Bourdeaux. At Avignon, 5 Bufhels makes 3 Sextiers of Paris, and 6 Bufhels of Bourdeaux. At Caftres they reckon 16 Bufhels an Emine, 2 Emines is a Sextier. The Sextier weighs about 200 b Weight of that Place, which is about 170 Ib Mark Weight; and 100 Sextiers of this Place makes 4 Lafts of Amfterdam. At Abbeville the Sextier is the fame as that of Paris. At Bologn a Sextier weighs 270 lb Weight, and 8 Sextiers of Bologn makes 5 in Paris. The Sextier of Paris renders in the following Places, viz. I At St. Valere, 1 Sextier. At Tours, 14 Bufhels. The Sextier of Arles weighs only 93 lb Mark Weight, and the Load 360 lb of that Country. The Load of Beaucaire is 2 per Cent. greater than that of Arles. |