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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87183	The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.	N. H.	1684 (1684)	Wing H97; ESTC R42683	85,604	194

Duke of York but the King by Letters Patents under the Great Seal of England constitutes the Post-Master-General From this General Office Letters and Pacquets are dispatched On Mondays To France Spain Italy Germany Flanders Swedeland Denmark Kent and the Downs On Tuesdays To Holland Germany Swedeland Denmark Ireland Scotland and all parts of England and Wales On Wednesdays To all parts of Kent and the Downs On Thursdays To France Spain Italy and all parts of England 〈◊〉 Scotland On Frydays To Flanders Germany Italy Swedeland Denmark ●and Kent and the Downs On Saturdays ●all parts of England Wales Scotland and Ireland Letters are returned from all parts of England and ●land certainly every Monday Wednesday and Fryday from Wales every Monday and Fryday and from 〈◊〉 and the Downs every day but from other parts 〈◊〉 uncertainly in regard of the Sea A Letter containing a whole sheet of Paper is convey'd 80 miles for 2 d. two sheets for 4 d. and an Ounce of Letters for 8 d. and so proportionably a a Letter containing a sheet is convey'd above 80 miles for 3 d. two sheets for 6 d. and every Ounce of Letters for 12 d. A sheet is conveyed to Dublin for 6 d. two for a shilling and an Ounce of Letters for 12 d. This Conveyance by Post is done in so short a time by night as well as by day that every 24 hours the Post goes 120 Miles and in five days an Answer of a Letter may be had from a place 300 miles distant from the Writer Moreover if any Gentleman desire to ride Post to any principal Town of England Post-horses are always in readiness taking no Horse without the consent of his Owner which in other Kings Reigns was not duly observed and only 3 d. is demanded for every English Mile and for every Stage to the Bost-Boy 4 d. for conducting Besides this Excellent convenience of conveying Letters and Men on Horseback there is of late such an admirable commodiousness both for Men and Women of better Rank to travel from London and to almost all the Villages near this great City that the like hath not been known in the World and that is by Stage-Coaches wherein one may be transported to any place sheltered from foul Weather and foul ways free from endamaging ones Health or Body by hard jogging or over-violent motion and this not only at a low price as about a shilling for every five Miles but with such velocity and speed as that the Posts in some Foreign Countries make not more Miles in a day for the Stage-Coaches called Flying Coaches make forty or fifty Miles in a day as from London to Oxford or Cambridge and that in the space of twelve hours not counting the time for Dining setting forth not too early nor coming in too late CHAP. XLVII The several Rates that now are and have been taken for the Carriage of Letter Pacquets and Parcels to or from any of His Majesties Dominions to or from any other Parts or Places beyond the Seas are as followeth that is to say   s. d MOrlaix St. Maloes Caen Newhaven and places of like distance Carriage paid to Rouen Single 0 6 Double 1 0 Treble 1 6 Ounce 1 6 Hamburg Colen Frankfort Carriage paid to Antwerp is Single 0 8 Double 1 4 Treble 2 0 Ounce 2 0 Venice Genoua Legorn Rome Naples Messina and all other parts of Italy by way of Venice Franct pro Mantua Single 0 9 Double 1 6 Treble 2 3 Ounce 2 8 Marseilles Smirna Constantinople Aleppo and all parts of Turky Carriage paid to Marselles Single 1 0 Double 2 0 ¾ Ounce 2 9 Ounce 3 8 And for Letters brought from the said places into England Single 0 8 Double 1 4 Treble 2 0 Ounce 2 0 For Letters brought into England from Calais Diepe Bologne Abbeville St. Omers Amiens Montrel Single 0 4 Double 0 8 Treble 1 0 Ounce 1 0 Rouen Single 0 6 Double 1 0 Treble 1 6 Ounce 1 6 Genoua Leghorn Rome and other parts of Italy by way of Lyons Frank pro Lyons Single 1 0 Double 2 0 ¾ Ounce 2 9 Ounce 3 9 And of Letters sent Outwards To Bourdeaux Rochel Nantz Orleans Bayon Tours and Places of like distance Port paid to Paris Single 0 9 Double 1 6 Treble 2 3 Ounce 2 0 For Letters from those Places in England Single 1 0 Double 2 0 ¾ Ounce 3 0 Ounce 4 0 And Letters sent outwards to Norembergh Bremen Dantzick Lubeck Lipswick and other Places of like distance Port paid to Hamburgh Single 1 0 Double 2 0 ¾ Ounce 3 0 Ounce 4 0 Paris Single 0 9 Double C 6 Treble 2 3 Ounce 2 0 Dunkirk Ostend Liste Ipres Cambray Ghent Bruxels Bruges Antwerp and all other parts of Flanders Sluce Flushing Middleburgh Amsterdam Roterdam Delph Hague and all other parts of Holland and Zealand Single 0 ● Double 1 4 Treble 2 0 Ounce 2 0 All Merchants Accompts not exceeding a Sheet Bills of Exchange Invoyces Bills of Lading shall be allowed without Rate in the price of the Letters and also the Covers of the Letters not exceeding 〈◊〉 Sheet to Marseilles Venice or Legorn towards Turky The said Office is managed by a Deputy and other Officers to the Number of seventy seven persons who give their actual Attendance respectively in the dispatch of the Business Upon this Grand Office depends one hundred eighty two Deputy-Post-Masters in England and Scotland most of which keep Regular Offices in their Stages and Sub-Post-Masters in their Branches and also in Ireland another General Office for that Kingdom which is kept in Dublin consisting of Eighteen like Officers and Forty five Deputy-Post-Masters The present Post-Master-General keeps constantly for the Transport of the said Letters and Pacquets Between England and France two Pacquet-Boats Flanders two Pacquet-Boats Holland three Pacquet-Boats Ireland three Pacquet-Boats And at Deal two Pacquet-Boats for the Downs All which Officers Post masters Pacquet-Boats are maintained at his own proper charge And as the Master-piece of all those good regulations established by the present Post-master-General for the better Government of the said Office he hath annexed and appropriated the Market Towns of England so well to their respective Post-Stages that there is no considerable Market-Town but hath an easie and certain Conveyance for the Letters thereof to and from the said Grand Office in the due course of the Males every Post Though the Number of Letters missive in England were not at all considerable in our Ancestors days yet it is now so prodigiously great since the meanest People have generally learnt to write that the Office is Farmed for above 40. rather 50000 l. a Year CHAP. XLVIII The Rates and Orders of Coach-men BY an Act of Paliament made in the Fourteenth Year of our Sovereign Lord King CHARLES the Second It is appointed That no person or persons after May 1. 1662. shall presume to drive except Stage-Coaches or let to Hire by the hour or day or

are sent The first Box or Hogshead is marked Num. 1. the second N o 2. and the third N o 3 c. and so continue according to the Quantities that are sent and by these Numbers any Hogsheads or Casks are known and distinguished one from another 2. As for Freight it is nothing else but a certain sum of Mony that a Master is to have for carrying of Goods from one place to another it is generally agreed upon by the Merchant that ships the Goods and the Master of the Ship and in most Countries it is paid when the Goods are landed 3. As for a Publick Notary he is a man appointed by the King's Majesty or the States of any Common Wealth to be Witness to any Act that is done and transacted betwixt Merchant and Merchant or man and man in any matter of Trade and these men are esteemed by others beyond the seas more than ordinary men because they are set in places of Authority and what they act is esteemed just and true because they are put in places of Trust though what another particular man said is not much regarded nay not at all in any manner of difference at Law whereas the Affirmation of the other is as good as any Witness whatsoever as for instance suppose you have received a Bill of 100 l. from a Friend in Holland upon Mr. A. B in London and you are sent with this Bill of Exchange to Mr. A. B. to have him accept it and he tells you he will not accept it you are to bring back this Bill to your Master and he sends it back to Holland and writes word that he had sent it to be accepted and Mr. A.B. would not accept it but said He could not do it c. The man that drew the Bill at Holland tells you It is false and he is sure Mr. A. B. will accept it and that he never gave such an Answer This now begets a Quarrel betwixt you and you cannot be reconciled But when the said Bill is carried to a Notary and that Notary doth signifie by Protest that the Bill was presented and Mr. A. B. said he would not accept it This Protest of the Notary where there is nothing but his bare Word is believed as much as if 500 men were there to swear it But Reader here you may ask Are these men used in nothing but for Bills of Exchange Answ Yes Suppose you have got a Commission from Holland c. for the selling of 20 Pieces of Linnens and those Linnens hold short or are dammaged or are not Merchantable c. upon a Certificate before a Notary made by the Buyers of the Goods or by Persons that are knowing in the said Commodities and the man that sent them unto you must rest satisfied Or if he have brought them for your Account he may force by that Certificate satisfaction from them that sold them unto you 2. But here again possibly you may ask In what other Cases are these men necessary in Trade Answ In the making of Protests against Masters Ships for Demurrage in the demanding Freight for Goods in the making Charter-Parties in any thing wherein a Publick Witness is necessary This man supplies the Place answers any Dispute that is made or if you have any Paper or Parchment that is useful and the Loss of it would be prejudicial to you you may have a true Copy of it drawn by a Notary and he asserting the same you may make the same Use of it as of the Original it self CHAP. XXXIX Giving every honest Merchant or Dealer an Account of the Method he should take according to Law to get in what is justly owing to him either by shuffling Tradesmen in the City or dishonest Correspondents in the Countrey 1. THere is the Court of Conscience and this only for Debts that are under forty shillings and take cognizance only of such as are owing by Freemen of the City of London inhabiting within the said City or the Liberties thereof Here you cause the Debtor to be warned in and must refer the Matter to Commissioners appointed by the Lord Mayor c. and you must abide by the Determination of the said Commissioners Generally Poverty is pleaded and the Debtor is ordered to pay so much by the Week 6 d. or 12 d. or what the Court thinks fit or else Execution is taken out against him You are believed for what you demand upon your Oath 2. The Second way of Proceeding that is Civil is to make an Attachment upon your Debtors Estate Monies or Goods that you understand is due to him from A. B. J. C c. in the Mayors or either of the Sheriffs Court and this doth not hurt the Person of him that owes the Mony but only secures the Debt and is no very great Disgrace to the Debtor nor any great Charge and is done with much Privacy 3. The Third way if you have any difference with a man and have a mind not openly to disparage him you acquaint him you intend to enter an Action against him in such a Counter and he will do well to put in Bail by such a day this is a great piece of Civility if you must go to Law and saves Money on both sides that is given to Sergeants c. 4. The fourth way is When you fear your man indeed and do really think to secure him then you give Order to an Officer to take him into custody you must first enter your Action at one of the Counters and pay your Sergeant and when the Sergeant hath him you have the Sheriff for your Security if the Party makes any Escape or the Bail be not good 5. The Fifth is by way of Writ from the King's Bench or the Common-Pleas and here the Party is held to special Bail before a Judge and must give in Bail here below and above too and this is troubleson for the Debtor and also Chargeable 6. A Sixth way is by Outlawry and this is very rigorous and a man now adays by the baseness of an Attorney is sued to an Outlawry and knows nothing of it but is quiet and means no body harm and here he is ruined and run up to much Charge before he knows wherefore he is troubled 7. The Seventh is A Commission of Bankrupt and this is many ways convenient but exceeding chargeable the meaning of it is a Commission from under the Great Seal of England directed to such and such Commissioners naming five or more directing them to enquire into all the Particulars of the mans Condition that hath failed They have power to Administer an Oath to send to Prison to release out of Prison they can break open Houses seize Goods sell them extend Lands and in short do any thing for the Advantage of the Creditors But a Statute cannot be taken out against a man unless one or more Creditors joyn together or the Sums amount to more than 100 l. and they must