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A38393 Englands golden treasury, or, The true vade mecum being the most necessary and useful pocket-companion ever published : for the use and advantage of gentlemen, tradesmen, and others : furnished with variety of tables of accompt, trade, merchandize, merchants goods, weights and measures of all kinds ... : choice precedents of bills, bonds, and all manner of useful writings, with many other things very useful, profitable and necessary. 1694 (1694) Wing E2970; ESTC R21120 40,957 81

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of Account in Reckoning and Bargaining was formerly used in all Cities Towns and Counties of England as the current way of Buying and Selling and is so still in most Country Fairs and Marts wherefore that none may be at a loss to know how Nobles and Marks are reducible to Pounds it is plainly demonstrated in this Table As for Example If you would know how many Poun 10 Nobles make look in 1 Col. for 10 and in the second Collume against it you will find 3 l. 6 s. 8 d. and going to the next Coll. you find 10 Marks make 6 l. 13 s. 4 d. and so of the rest A Table of Discompt and Rebate Moneys at 6 per Cent. Simple Interest for 3 6 12 Mon.   3 Months 6 Months 12 Months   l. s. d. l. s. d. l. s. d. s 5 0 4 11 11 0 4 10 25 0 4 8 60 10 0 9 10 23 0 9 8 51 0 9 5 21 15 0 14 9 34 0 14 6 76 0 14 1 81 l. 1 0 19 8 45 0 19 5 01 0 18 10 42 2 1 19 4 91 1 18 10 02 1 17 8 83 3 2 19 1 36 2 18 3 03 2 16 7 25 4 3 18 9 81 3 17 8 04 3 15 5 66 5 4 18 6 27 4 17 1 05 4 14 4 08 6 5 18 2 72 5 16 6 06 5 13 2 49 7 6 17 11 17 6 15 11 07 6 12 0 91 8 7 17 7 63 7 15 4 08 7 10 11 32 9 8 17 4 08 8 14 9 09 8 9 9 74 10 9 17 0 53 9 14 2 10 9 8 8 15 20 19 14 1 06 19 8 4 19 18 17 4 30 30 29 11 1 60 29 2 6 29 28 6 0 45 40 39     50 49 5 2 66 38 16 8 39 37 14 8 60 60 59 2 3 19 48 10 10 48 47 3 4 75 70 68 19 3 72 58 5 0 58 46 12 0 91 80 78 16 4 26 67 19 2 68 66 0 9 06 90 88 3 4 79 77 13 4 78 75 9 5 21 100 98 10 5 32 87 76 8 7 84 18 1 36 200 197 0 10 64 97 1 8 97 94 6 9 51     194 3 5 94 188 13 7 01 This Table refers properly to Buying and Selling for if a Merchant or Dealer vends his Commodity to be payed as they usually do at the times mentioned and after the Bargain is made for such Credit the Debtor is willing to pay ready Money if the other accept it he must abate so much of the interest as it would come to in the time as if so much Money was put out to Interest at the usual Interest of 6 l. per Cent. and then you will find under each proportion of time the same answered as to the Rebate Coachmen their Fares in and about London BY an Act of Parliament made in the Fourteenth Year of Our Soveraign Lord King CHARLES the Second it is appointed That no Hackney Coach-man shall presume to take for his Hire in or about the Cities of London and Westminster above Ten Shillings for a Day reckoning 12 Hours to the Day and by the Hour not above 18 Pence for the first Hour and 12 Pence for every Hour after Nor for his Hire from any of the Inns of Court or thereabouts to any part of St. James's or Westminster except beyond Tuttle-Street above 12 Pence and the like from the same places to the Inns of Court or places thereabouts nor from the Inns of Court or thereabouts to the Royal Exchange more than 12 Pence but if to the Tower Bishopsgate-Street Aldgate or places thereabouts 18 Pence and so from the same places to the said Inns of Court as aforesaid That the like Rates be observed from or to any place at the like distance with the places before-named That if any Coach-man shall refuse to go at or exact more for his Hire than these Rates he shall for every Offence forfeit 10 Shillings The Rates or Fares of Water-men plying on the River of Thames   Oars Skuller   s. d. s. d. FRom London to Lime-house Newcrane Shadwel-dock Bell-wharfe Ratcliff-cross 0 1 0 6 To Wapping-dock Wapping new and Wapping old stairs the Hermitage Rotherhith Church Stairs and Rotherhith Stairs 0 6 0 3 From Billinsgate and St. Olaves to St. Saviour's Mill 0 6 0 3 All the Stairs btween London-bridge and Westminster 0 6 0 3 From either side above London-bridge to Lambeth and Fox-hall 1 0 0 6 From Whitehall to Lambeth and Fox-hall 0 6 0 3 From Temple Dorset Black-friers Stairs and Pauls-wharf to Lambeth 0 8 0 4 Over the water directly in the next Sculler between London-bridge and Lime-house or the Bridge and Fox-Hall 0 0 0 2 OARS     Whole Fare Company     s. d. s. d. From London to Gravesend 4 6 0 9 Gralse or Greenhith 4 0 0 8 Purfleet or Eriff 3 0 0 6 Woolwich 2 6 0 4 Blackwall 2 0 0 4 Greenwich or Deptford 1 6 0 3 Chelsey Battersey Wansworth 1 6 0 3 Putney Fulham Barnelms 2 0 0 4 Hammersmith Chiswich Mortlack 2 6 0 6 Brentford Isleworth Richmond 3 6 0 6 Twickenham 4 0 0 6 Kingston 5 0 0 9 Hampton-court 6 0 1 0 Hampton Town Sunbury Walton 7 0 1 0 Weybridge and Chertsey 10 0 1 0 Stanes 12 0 1 0 Windsor 14 0 2 0 Rates of Goods carryed in the Tilt-Boat between Gravesend and London   s. d. A half Firkin 0 1 A whole Firkin 0 2 A Hogshead 2 0 A hundred weight of Cheese Iron or any heavy Goods 0 4 A sack of Salt or Corn. 0 6 An ordinary Chest or Trunk 00 6 An ordin Hamper 00 6 The Hire of the whole Tilt-boat 22 6 Every single Person in the ordinary passage 00 6 What Waterman takes and demands more than these Rates lies lyable to pay Forty Shillings and suffer half a Years Imprisonment And if he refuse to carry any Passenger or Goods at these Rates upon Complaint made to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen he shall be suspended from his Employ for Twelve Months Of the Inferiour Courts in and about London the Days and Places where they are held and Attendance given c. I. THE Marshals Court is held on Frydays in the Marshalseas in Southwark and its Jurisdiction extends 12 Miles every way from White-Hall and no further II. The Court of Request commonly called The Court of Conscience is held at the Upper-end of Guild Hall London Wednesdays and Saturdays III. The Court of Hustings is held on the Hustings on Tuesdays at Guild-Hall IV. The Two Sheriffs Courts for the Two Counters are held in Guild-Hall for Woodstreet Counter Wednesdays and Fridays and for the Poultrey Thursdays and Saturdays V. The Mayors Court is held Mondays Tuesdays and every Day in the Week if the Lord Mayor pleases to Sit and this we have the rather noted because many mistaking the days of one Court for another have been Non-suited or otherways