at Wisbich Worcester Pomfret April easter-Easter-monday at Oney in Bedforshire Gainsborough easter-Easter-tuesday at Daintry in Northamptonsh Godmonchester Schole in Norfolk St. Edmondsbury on Wednesday at Wellingborough in Northamptonshire on Friday in the same Week at Darby on Saturday at Bicklesworth the 2 at Hitchen Rochford Northfleet the 7 at Darby the 9 at Billingsworth Bicklesworth the 22 at Stabford the 23 at Ipswich Harbin in Norfolk Northampton Sapsar in Hartfordshire Charing Hinningham Tamworth Bury in Lancashire S. Bombs in Cornwal the 27 at Dunmow in Essex Oakham in Rutlandshire Buckingham Darby the 29 at Tenderden in Kent Pleet the 30 at Beverly a week together May. The first day at Havevel in Essex Layton-buzzard in Huntingtonshire Rippon in Yorkshire Reading Maidstone Toxford in the Clay the 3d. at Elstow in Bedfordsh Noneaton in Warwicksh Thedford in Norfolk Chelmford in Essex Waltham-Abby Hinningham Rochdale Bramyard the 7th at Newton in Lancashire Beverley Oxford the 10th at Rochester Dunstable Magfield in Suffolk on Rogation munday at Reach on ascention-Ascention-day at Thaxted Beverly Rippon Sudminster Bishops-stratford S. Eeds Wickham in Lancashire Middle-Wich in Cheshire Chappel-frith in Derbyshire on Whitfon-Eve at Skipton in Craven on whitson-Whitson-monday at St. Ives Rygate in Surry Bicklesworth Bradford Agmundesham in Buckinghamsh on whitson-Whitson-Tuesday at Newmarket on Wednesday at Royston on Thursday at Odehil in Northamptonshire the 26th day at Lenham the 29th at Crainbrook June On Trinity-Eve at Rowel Kendal on Corpus Christi at banbury Bishops-stratford St. Eedes Coventry Newbury the 9. at Maidstone the 11 at Breme in Norfolk Bardfield in Essex the 17. at Hadstock the 23. at S. Albans Deerham in Norfolk Shrewsbury the 24 at Halson in Suffolk Barnwel beside Cambridge Bedford Colchester Bumford Reading Windsor Halifax Hardford Beverly Haselinden the 26 at Bristol Derby the 27 at Burton on Trent Folstone the 28 at S. Pombs in Cornwal the 29 at Peterborough Ashwel Sudbury Stebbing in Essex Benington in Hartfordshire July The 1 2 and 3 days at Congelston in Chesh the 7 at Royston Burntwood the Munday after at Fodringham the 11 at Partney for Horses the 20 at Uxbridge Coolidge Woodstock Barkway the 22 at Ickleton Bicklesworth Norwich Colchester the 25 at Audly-end beside Walden Reading August The first day at Bedford S. Eedes Dunstable Feversham Wisbich Bicklesworth Stoni-stratford the 10 at Blackanâ—ore Harple in Norfolk Thaxted in Essex S. Ives Bedford Banbury Farnham Brainford the 15 at Cambridge Huntington Dunmow Luton Northampton the 24 at London Sudbury Norwich Oxford Northallerton Dover Beggars-bush Burton the 29 at Halson in Suffolk Harlow-bush in Essex Watford September The first day at S. Giles in the bush on Thursday and Friday next before the 8 day at Sandbach in Chesh the 7 8 9 and 10 days at Woodbury-hill in Dorsetsh the 7 at Ware the 8 at Huntington Bury in Lancash Partney Wakefield Northampton and Sturbridge-fair belonging to Cambridge begins the 14 at Râ—ppon for Horses Waltham-Abbey Chesterfield in Darbishire Richmond the 21 day at Marleborough Bedford Baldor S. Edmondâ—â—ury Holden in Holderness Braintry Bracklymaiden Malden the 29 at S. Ives Basingstoke Market-deeping Shelford in Bedfordshire Bishopstratford Malden for Horses Stow in Lincolnshire Thursday after at Banbury October The second at Salisbury the 6 at Havent in Hampsh Maidston Coolidge Gayworth by Lin S. Faiths the 8 at Bishopstratford Harborough the 9 at Gainsborough in Lincolnshire the 13 at Windsor Colchester Gravesend the 18 day at Ely Bishops-hatfield Barnet Banbury Thirst Burton on Trent the 21 day at Saffron-Walden the 23 at Bicklesworth the 28 at Newmarket Dis in Norfolk Wakefield Richdrle in Lancashire November The first day at Chelmsford the 2 at Epping-Kingstone on Thames Padamhasson in Suffolk the 6 day at Newport pond Bedford Hartford the 11 at Lodden in Norfolk Lenton in Nottinghamshire Hempton in Norfolk Fockingham in Lincolnshire Bridgstock in Northamtonsh Marleborough the 17 at Spalding in Lincolnshire Harlow Lincoln Hide Northampton the 19 at Horsham in Kent the 20 at S. Edmondsbury Ingerstone in Essex Heath the 23 at Sandwich the 30 at Boldoc Bareford Kolingborough Maidenhead Warrington Rochester December The 5 at Pluckly the 6 at S. Eedes Woodstock Spalding Norwich in Cheshire at Exeter Senock in Kent Arundel Grantham the 7 at Sandhurst the 8 at Northampton Clitheral in Lancashire Huntington Malpas in Chesh the 29 at Canterbury Salisbury FINIS An Alphabetical Table of the whole Book A. ADvantages of London with respect to Trade Pag. 22 Assurance what it is Pag. 75 An Alphabetical Account of all the Carriers Waggoners and Stage-Coaches that come to London Westminster and Southwark from all Parts of England and Wales with their respective Days of going out Pag. 125 Arts Glory or The Tradesmans Practical Arithmetick Pag. 135. A perpetual Almanack Pag. 160 C. COmpleat House-Keeper or Directions to all Tradesmen for the cheap Ordering their Domestick Affairs Pag. 14 Corâ—orations of London pag. 20 Coal-Market pag. 61 Corn-Market ibid. Customs Subsidies and Impositions paid upon Commondities pag. 83 Commodities of all Countries whereby Commerce is maintained pag. 91 Cities and Market Towns in England and Wales with the Distance of one City and Market-Town from another with an account likewise in what County each City and Town lies and their respective Market-Days very useful for all Tradesmen in their travelling upon the Road from Town to Town and from City to City and likewise in their directing all their Post-Letters and Parcels and upon many other Accounts besides pag. 107 The several Rates that now are and have been taken for the Carriage of Letters Pacquets and Parcels to or from any of His Majesties Dominions and to or from any other Parts of Places beyond the Seas pag. 163 The Rates and Orders of Coaâ—hmen pag. 166 The Rates of Car-men pag. 168 Orders for Car-men pag. 171 D. DIrections for the well managing a Trade p. 3 Directions to young Shop-keepers in their first setting up p. 8 Directions to Merchants how to keep their Books of Accounts after the best manner p. 68 Directions to all Merchants and other Dealers giving them light into the Method for Entring of Goods inwards or Outwards at the Custom-House how to get Bills of Lading Signed together with the Coyy of a Bill of Lading p. 71 Discount what it is p. 81 Docks what useful to know concerning them p. 95 F. FOreign Trade of London p. 24 Fish-Market p. 62 Factors and Commissions p. 79 Fees of the Chief or Head-Searcher and of His Majesties Five Vnder Searchers in the Port of London Foreign Coyn reduced to English Money p. 100 The Valuation of Foreign and English Gold p. 155 An Account of the Principal Fairs in England together with the Month Day and Place where they be kept more exactly than heretofore for the Vse of all Citizens and others that go to Fairs p. 176 I. INdustry and Trade in General p. 1 A Table of Interest p. 157 K. KIngs Reigns p. 175 M. LAws of the Maâ—ket p. 60 Merchants of London p. 62 Money and Gold p. 98 Hebrew Money ib. English Money and Gold ib. How the Merchant should mark he Goods that go beyond Sea together with a Discourse concerning Freight and the great Vsefulness of a Publick Notary p. 146 How every honest Merchant or Dealer should according to Law get in what is justly owing to him either by shuffling Tradesmen in the City or dishonest Corresâ—ondents in the Country p. 149 Directions to Merchants and other Dealers how to discover all counterfeit Coyn and bad Money of great Vse in the receiving of great Sums of Money Together with the Valuation of Foreign and English Gold and Silver p. 152 O. OAth of a Freeman of London p. 21 P. PEtty Sho-Kerpers living in Country-Villages p. 38 Pedlars and Petty Chapmen p. 44 Of the Post-Office p. 161 R. RVles to be observed in buying and selling Commodities p. 11 S. SHop-keeping Trades in the Kingdon p. 33 Standard for Sterling-Money in England p. 99 T. TRadesmen directed in the cheap ordering of their Domestick Affairs p. 14 Trade of London p. 19 Trade of London into the Country p. 25 Trades being in Companies p. 26 Tradesmen breaking the real Cause of it p. 29 Table of Accounts ready cast up for the sure and ready buying of any Commodities whatsoever either by Number Weight or Measure p. 48 Table for buying and selling and thing by the Hundred p. 58 Table for finding out the Day of the Month for ever p. 71 Tale of Goods something useful to know about it p. 104 Table of Expences and Wages shewing by what you spend or pay by the day what it comes to by the Week Month or Year p. 106 A Comâ—leat Tide-Table p. 158 The Terms and their Returns p. 159 W. WEights Measures and Numbers what useful to know concerning them p. 102 Orders for Watermen p. 173 ADVERTISEMENT BOOKS lately Printed for J. Dunton VIZ. I. THE Pilgrims Guide from the Cradle to his Death-Bed in a pleasant new Allegory To which is added The Sick-Man's Passing-Bell with 50 ingenious Treatises besides To which is annext an impartial Treatise concerning Devils Apparitions Ghâ—sts of Dead Persons Hags Wizards Withchâ—â— and their Imps with the manner how persons become Witches Illustrated with 8 Copper-Plates II. The Travels of True Godliness By B. Keach Author of War with the Devil in a new Allegory To which is now added 5 new Cuts together with True Godliness's Voyage to Sea III. The Progâ—â—ss of Sin or The Travels of Vngodliness in a Pleasant Allegory likewise Both written by the same Author IV. The Continuation of the Morning Exercise in Octob. 1682. By 31 Reverend Divines in the City of London
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 â—and Kent and the Downs On Saturdays â—all parts of England Wales Scotland and Ireland Letters are returned from all parts of England and â—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 â— 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
such Victuals as is convenient for the same Feast 4. No Butter shall be sold but according to the Weight for the time of the year allowed 5. No Poulterers shall deceivably occupy the Market to sell any stale Victuals or such as be Poulterers of this City for to stand in strange Cloathing so to do under pain of Forty shillings and the forfeiture of such Victuals Forty shillings 6. No Hucksters shall stand or fit in the Market but in the lower place and the ends of the Market to the intent they may be perfectly known and the Stranger-market-people have the preheminence of the Market under pain of Three shillings four pence if the Hucksters disobey the same 7. No unwholsom or stale Victuals shall be sold under pain of Forty shillings and forfeiture of the same Victuals CHAP. XX. Of the Coal-Market AT the Head of Billings-Gate Dock is a square Plot of Ground compassed with Posts known by the name of Roomland which with the adjacent part of the Street hath been the usual place where the Ship-Masters Coal-Merchants Wood-mongers Lighter-men and Labourers do meet every Morning in order to the buying selling delivering and taking up of Sea-Coals and Scotch-Coals as the principal Market This Coal-Market was kept on Great Tower-Hill in the time of the Cities late Desolation CHAP. XXI Of the Corn-Market UPon Bear-Key between Sab's Dock and Porters-Key is the usual place or chief Market for Corn which is bought and sold there every day but principally Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays which are the market-Market-days where great quantities of all kind of Grain are bought and sold by small Examples commonly called Samples whether it be lying in Granaries or Ships and it viz. Bear-Key is the principal place where the Kentish and Essex Corn-Vessels do lie CHAP. XXII Of the Fish-Market THe Fresh Fish-Market is kept at Billings-Gate Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays CHAP. XXIII Of the Merchants of LONDON MErchandizing may be said to be an Art or Science Invented by Ingenious Man-kind for the Publick Good and Profit of all supplying as was said the Native wants of one place by the abundance of others that do not consume their own Growths Products or Manufactures Such as Negotiate and Traffick this way are called Merchants The things sold or exchanged are Two First Wares or Goods and Secondly Moneys or Coyn which are usually Contracted or Bargained for three ways First When Goods are Exchanged for Goods that is so much of one Sort for like value of another and this is called Bartering usual here in old times and in many places of America Asia and Affrica in these days but in process of time Men finding it too difficult and troublesom to carry about them all things thus Bargained and Truckt for from place to place invented a common Standard or Measure that should countervail and be in value as all other things and be accounted in Payments Satisfaction and Equivalency to all others and this is called Money of Gold Silver or other Metals This use of Money is as old as Abraham but it was not then Coyned but only in Pieces unstampt and since by Authority of Princes it was divided into great and small Pieces and into several and distinct Parts and Denominations and Stampt or Coyned with several Characters denoting the true Weight and Value of the same This was done first by Servius in Rome of Brass whereon was Imprinted the Image of Sheep and Oxen betokening the Wealth and Riches of those days Ten of those Pieces made a Denier or Penny and were called by Latins Denarii This was the Original of Money which afterward came to be Coyned of Silver and Gold Secondly The second way is of Goods for Money and this is termed Bargaining or Buying and Selling This facilitates Merchandizing and to prevent the Inconvenience and Danger of the Carriage of Money about a Man another Medium was found and that was Thirdly Exchanging which is of the giving of so much Money in one place to one who should cause it again to be repay'd in another place by another for him In all Exchanges there is concluded two Payments two Places and four distinct Persons viz. He that payeth in one place and receiveth in another and he that receiveth in the one place and payeth in the other and so no man can remit except there be another to draw nor can any receive except there be another authorized to pay The first of these ways was taught to Mankind by necessity the Second was sound out to facilitate the First and the Third to facilitate the Second Thus was the Original of Exchanges to accommodate Commerce which was first practised without benefit or loss or any other consideration they using to pay the value of the very Sum received but in time it came to be considered that the Party paying loses time and runs a hazard and therefore it was held reasonable that he should have some benefit Hence Exchanges are converted to an Art or Mystery Moneys being remitted for benefit without so much respect to the end of its Original Institution In the first sort the Merchant ought to know the Commodities delivered and received the present value of both the Quality Viz. whether lasting or perishable the Property viz. whether of Natural growth or Artificial And lastly the Quantity Viz. whether plentiful or scarce and in few Lands In the second sort the same things are necessary and also a knowledge how the Things are Bought and Sold whether by Weight as ponderous Goods by Concave or long Measures as Commodities of Length or such as are Solid or Liquid A knowledge of Weights and Measures of the fineness goodness and currant value of Money c. A Merchant is to know what to bargain for how to bargain when to bargain and with whom which comprehends the knowledge of the Commodity Weights and Measures proper Seasons and Credit of the Party bargained with In the third sort there is necessary a knowledge of the fineness goodness and currant value of the Princes Coyn where the Remitter and Party receiving abide a knowledge of the currant Rate of Exchanging of the Par or value for value both according to the Standard of the Country and according to the Valuation of the currant Coyn there passable Then of the Vsance of the Place and a knowledge of the Drawer and Receiver As also the due manner and form of making of all Legal Intimations Protests and other such needful Instruments Circumstances and Observations as are requisite upon default of payment according to the strict and solemn Rules required in a Bill of Exchange These General Heads are not to instruct Merchants but to give a kind of a view of this Noble Calling to others that are Strangers to it More particularly in this Famous City is a great number of Merchants who for Wealth for Stately Houses within the City in Winter and without in Summer for rich Furniture plentiful Tables honourable Living for great
good Account be sure to keep you may A TABLE for finding out the day of the Month for ever of daily use for TRADERS Sunday 1 8 15 22 29 Mundayes 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesdayes 3 10 17 24 31 Wednesdayes 4 11 18 25  Thursdayes 5 12 19 26  Frydayes 6 13 20 27  Saturdayes 7 14 21 28  Munday 1 8 15 22 2 Tuesdayes 2 9 16 23 30 Wednesdayes 3 10 17 24 31 Thursdayes 4 11 18 25  Frydayes 5 12 19 26  Saturdayes 6 13 20 27  Sundayes 7 14 21 28  Tuesday 1 8 15 22 29 Wednesdayes 2 9 16 23 30 Thursdayes 3 10 17 24 31 Frydayes 4 11 18 25  Saturdayes 5 12 19 26  Sundayes 6 13 20 27  Mundayes 7 14 21 28  Wednesday 1 8 15 22 29 Thursdayes 2 9 16 23 30 Fridayes 3 10 17 24 31 Saturdayes 4 11 18 25  Sundayes 5 12 19 26  Mundayes 6 13 20 27  Tuesdayes 7 14 21 28  Thursday 1 8 15 22 29 Frydays 2 9 16 23 30 Saturdays 3 10 17 24 31 Sundays 4 11 18 25  Mundays 5 12 19 26  Tuesdays 6 13 20 27  Wednesdays 7 14 21 28  Fryday 1 8 15 22 29 Saturdays 2 9 16 23 30 Sundays 3 10 17 24 31 Mundays 4 11 18 25  Tuesdays 5 12 19 26  Wednesdays 6 13 20 27  Thursdays 7 14 21 28  Saturday 1 8 15 22 29 Sundays 2 9 16 23 30 Mundays 3 10 17 24 31 Tuesdays 4 11 18 25  Wednesdays 5 12 19 26  Thursdays 6 13 20 27  Frydays 7 14 21 28  KInd Reader this Table readily shews the day of the Month for ever Example The first of February 1683. is on a Thursday and I would know what day of the Month the third Wednesday in that Month is I seek for the Square in this Table that begins with Thursday and in that Square look for Wednesday and against it I find 7 14 21 28. which are all the Wednesdays in that Monah the third answering the Question being the 21th day of the Month. And so for any Day of any Month of any Year The Figures under each Month shew the number of Days but in Leap-years Feb. has 29 Days CHAP. XXV Directions to all Merchants and other Dealers giving them light into the method for entring of Goods Inwards or Outwards at the Custom-house how to get Bills of Lading signed with the Copy of a Bill of Lading with the Copy of a Policy of Assurance Commissions and Discount SUppose you have 15 Bails of Cloth to Ship off for Turkey your Cloth being ready packt take the true Contents thereof which carry to the Custom-house between the hours of 9 and 11 in the Morning and give in the same to the Clerks appointed where you shall find such care taken of Merchants that from Man to Man the Clerks dispatch you without any undue preference and having found out the first he directs you to the second and then he to the third and so forwards until you have the Commissioners or Farmers Hands and the Office-Seal and this with such order that it is not imaginable for any man of any reason whatever to be put beside his Turn but every man served in due or der as his business comes to hand And no Clerkwill demand more than his just Dues if he doth there is good Justice against him immediately by complaining to the Commissioners or Farmers for the time being Having thus gotten your Coquet which is a small Piece of Parchment testifying the Payment of the Customs and all Duties for your 15 Bails of Cloth you fetch your Cloth from the Packers and having put on your Mark and Numbers then you set the same Mark and Numbers on the back of your Coquet mentioning the true Contents of each Bail then go with your Goods to the Water-side when you come there you must deliver your Coquet to the Searcher with his Fee what he demands and pay the Wharfage and Portage of your Goods and so Ship them in Boat or Lighter or Ship as you are directed by your Master if you send them by Boat or Lighter on board the Ship you must order him that carries them to bring you before you pay him a Receipt from the Master his Mate or Purser of receiving the said Goods on board the Ship which Receipt is commonly in these words or to this effect Received the 19th of August 1683. on board the Good Ship Asia 15 Bails of Cloth marked and numbred as underneath per me I. R. Purser ☞ Num. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15. This Note justifies the Water-mans delivering the Goods on board the Ship and assoon as you have it you must find out the Master of the Ship and cause him to sign you three Bills of Lading A Bill of Lading is an acknowledgment from the Master of the Ship for your Goods with a promise to deliver them at the place he is bound for A Copy of which here follows Shipped by the Grace of God in good order and well conditioned by me I. P. in and upon the Good Ship called the Asia whereof is Master under God for this present Voyage R. M. and now Riding at Anchor in the River of Thames and by Gods Grace bound for Constantinople To say 15 Bails of Cloth being Marked and Numbred as in the Margin and are to be delivered in like good order and well conditioned ☞ Numb 1 to 15. at the aforesaid Port of Constantinople the dangers of the Sea only excepted unto Mr. J. K. or to his Assigns he or they paying Fraight for the said Goods two Lyon Dollars per Bail with Primage and Avarage accustomed In witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading all of this Tenour and Date the one of which three Bills being accomplished the other two to stand void And so God send the Good Ship to her desired Port in safety Amen Dated in London the 20th of August 1683. Inside Contents not known per me R. M. The Master having signed you three Bills of Lading keeps one of them himself and leaves the other two with you one of which you send away inclosed in a Letter to your Correspondent to whom the 15 Bails of Cloth are consigned the other you keep with you for a Testimony against the Master if occasion shall so happen by losses or otherwise whereby he may be forced to make satisfaction Also the Bill of Lading which remains in your hand is of great concernment for if in case the Goods are injured and come to damage or are lost the Insurer will be forced by vertue of the same to make you satisfaction for the said loss for by the said Bill it will appear that such and such Goods were shipped in such or such a Ship by such or such a one and
01 06 French Lewis 00 04 4½ Doub Milret of Portugal 00 03 6¼ Single Milret of Portugal 00 01 09 St. Mark of Venice 00 02 06 Double Dutch Stiver 00 00 1¾ Cross Dollers 00 04 2½ Zealand Doller 00 02 07 Old Philip Doller 00 05 00 Ferdinando Doller 1623 00 04 03 Prince of Orange Doller 1624 00 04 3¾ Rodalphus Doller 1676 00 04 04 Maximilian Doller 1616 00 04 05 Danish Doller 1620 00 2 11¼ Portugal Festoon 00 01 2¾ New ¼ of French Lewis 00 01 01 A Crown 5 s. Half a Crown 2 s. 6 d. Thirteen-pence-half-penny 1 s. 1 d. ½ Half and Quarter Thirteen-pence-half-penny Nine-pence 9 d. Four-pence-half-penny 4 d. ½ Shilling 12 d. Six-pence 6 d. Groat 4 d.. Three-pence 3 d. Two-pence 2 d. Penny 1 d. Half-penny ½ d. A Plain Table of Interest  1 Mon. 2 Mon. 3 Mon. 9 Mon. A Year Shillings  sh p. q. sh p. q. sh p. q. sh p. q. sh d. q. 5 0 0 1 0 0 3 0 1 3 0 2 1 0 7 1 10 0 0 2 0 1 3 0 3 2 0 5 2 0 3 2 15 0 0 3 0 2 2 0 5 1 0 8 0 0 10 0 Pounds 1 0 1 0 0 3 2 0 7 0 0 10 1 1 2 1 2 0 2 1 0 7 0 1 2 1 1 9 1 2 4 2 3 0 3 2 0 10 2 1 9 1 1 7 3 3 6 3 4 0 4 3 1 2 1 2 4 2 2 6 3 4 9 0 5 0 6 0 1 6 0 3 0 0 4 6 0 6 7 0 6 0 7 0 1 9 2 3 7 0 5 4 2 7 2 1 7 0 8 1 2 1 0 4 2 1 6 3 1 8 4 2 8 0 9 2 2 4 2 4 9 1 7 1 2 9 6 3 9 0 10 3 2 8 1 5 4 2 8 0 3 10 0 0 Tens of Pounds  l. sh d. l. sh d. l. sh d. l. sh d. l. sh d. 10 0 1 0 0 3 0 0 6 0 0 9 0 0 12 0 20 0 2 0 0 6 0 0 12 0 0 18 0 1 4 0 30 0 3 0 0 9 0 0 18 0 1 7 0 1 16 0 40 0 4 0 0 12 0 1 4 0 1 16 0 2 18 0 50 0 5 0 0 15 0 1 10 0 2 5 0 3 0 0 60 0 6 0 0 18 0 1 16 0 â— 14 0 3 12 0 70 0 7 0 1 1 0 2 2 0 3 3 0 4 4 0 80 0 8 0 1 4 0 2 8 0 3 12 0 4 16 0 90 0 9 0 1 9 0 2 14 0 4 1 0 5 18 0 100 0 10 0 1 10 0 3 0 0 4 10 0 6 0 0 The Use of this Table is this If you 'ld know what â—he Interest of 100 and 5 l. is for 9 Months at 6 per â—ent then in the first Column find out 100 at the foot â—f the Column and right against it under the Title â— Months which is the fifth Column here you 'll find â— l. 10 s. And against the Number 5 l. you shall â—nd 4 s. 6 d. So that the Interest of 100 and 5 l. for â— Months cometh to 4 l. 14 s. 6 d. The same of the rest CHAP. XLIII A Compleat Tide-Table shewing the Time of High-Water at London Gravesend the Downs Malden Rochester Quinborough Portsmouth and Isle of Wight with Hours and Minutes Mo. Age. London Graves Rochest Quinbor H. M. H. M. H M. H. M. H. M. 1 16 3 18 2 13 1 33 11 46 2 17 4 36 3 6 2 2 1 36 3 18 5 24 3 54 3 9 2 24 4 19 6 12 4 42 3 57 3 12 5 20 7 0 5 30 4 50 4 0 6 21 7 48 6 15 5 33 4 48 7 22 8 30 7 6 6 21 5 36 8 23 9 24 7 54 7 19 6 24 9 24 10 12 8 42 7 57 7 12 10 25 11 0 9 30 8 45 8 0 11 26 11 43 10 18 9 33 8 48 12 27 12 27 11 6 10 21 9 26 13 28 1 24 11 5â— 11 9 10 24 14 29 2 12 12 42 11 57 11 12 15 30 3 0 1 30 12 45 12 0 In the first Column is the Moons Age in the second is the hours and minutes of High Water at London-Bridge Gravesend and other Places When the Moon is one day old it is High Water at London-Bridge at Three of the Clock eighteen Minutes past and so it is when the Moon is sixteen days old and so 〈◊〉 is with every Moâ—ns Age the Figure opposite to it is the hour and minute of High Water in every Column The TERMS and their Returns Hillary Term begins Jan. 22. ends Feb. 12. Return on Essoyn days Exch. da. Ret. Br. Appear Octab. Hill Jan. 21. Jan. 21 Jan. 22 Jan. 23 Quind Hill Jan. 28 Jan. 28 Jan. 29 Jan. 30 Clast Purif Febr. 5 Febr. 4 Febr. 5 Febr. 6 Octab. Purif Febr. 11 Febr. 11 Febr. 12 Febr. 12 Easter Term begins April 16 ends May 12. Quind Pasch Apr. 14 April 15 Apr. 16 April 16 Tres Pasch Apr. 21 April 22 Apr. 23 April 24 Mens Pasch Apr. 28 April 29 Apr. 30 May 1 Quinq Pasch May 5 May 6. May 7 May 7 Crast Ascens May 9 May 10 May 10 May 12 Trinity Term begins May 30 ends June 18. Crast Trin. May 26 May 27 May 28 May 30 Octab. Trin. June 2 June 3 June 4 June 5 Quinq Trin. June 9 June 10 June 11 June 12 Tres Trin. June 16 June 17 June 17 June 18 Michalem Term begins Oct. 23 ends No. 28. Tres Mich. October 20 October 21 Octo. 22 Octo. 23 Mens Mich. Octob. 27 October 27 Octo. 29 Octo. 0 Crast Anim. Novem. 3 Novem 4 Nov. 5 Nov. 6 Crast Mart. Novem 1 Novem. 13 Nov. 14 Nov. 15 Octab. Mart. Nov. 19 Novem. 20 Nov. 21 Nov. 22 Quind Mart. Nov. 25 Novem. 26 Nov. 27 Nov. 28 The Exchequer opens 8 days before any Term begins except Trinity Term before which it opens only 4 days Note that the first and last days of every Term are the first and last days of Appearance CHAP. XLV A Perpetual Almanack of daily Vse to all Traders Apr July Sept. Dec. June Febr. Mar. Nov. August May. Jan. October 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 00 00 00 00 Note That on what Day of the Week the Year begins the Figure under each Month is the same day of the Week until the Years end as for Example The 25th day of the first Month called March was on the Third Day of the Week called Tuesday under September and December you see 2 which sheweth Tuesday to be the second day of each of those Months and so go on to the end of the Month and the like in all the other Months CHAP. XLVI Of the Post-Office THis Office is now kept in Lumbard-street formerly in Bishopsgate-street the Profits of it are by Act of Parliament setled on his Royal Highness the
21 days without Bail or Mainprise If any Merchant or other person shall refuse to pay a Car-man for his Hire after these Rates upon Complaintmade by the Car-man to the President of Christ-Hospital or any Justice of the Peace the President or Justice may oblige them to do it All Merchants or others may chuse what Car they please except such as stand for Wharf-work Tackle◠work Crane-work Shop and Merchants Houses which are to be taken in turn Every Car-man standing with his empty Car next to any Goods to be loaded shall upon the first demand load the same without bargaining for any other Wages than the Rates before-mentioned If a Merchant or other person shall cause a Carman to attend at his House Shop Ware-house or Cellar with his Loaden Carr above half an hour before he unloads the Car-man being willing to help unload the same he shall pay the Car-man after the Rate of Twelve-pence for every hour after the first half hour for his Attendance Every Licensed Car-man is to have a piece of Brass fixed upon his Car upon which is to be set a certain Number which Number together with the Car-man's Name is Registred in a Register kept in Christ-Hospital so that if any Car-man offends it is but taking notice of the Number of his Carr and search for that in the said Register and you will find his Name Every Car-man that shall not conform to these Bules or work without a Numbred piece of Brass fixed on his Carr may be suspended from his Employment Complaints of the Abuses of Car-men may be made every Tuesday at Two of the Clock in the Afternoon to the Court sitting in Christ-Hospital CHAP. LI. The Rates or Fares of Water-men  Oars Skul s. d. s. d. FRom London to Limehouse New-Crane Shadwel-Dock Bell-wharf Ratcliff-cross 1 0 0 6 To Wapping-Dock Wapping-New and Wapping Old-Stairs the Hermitage Rotherhith Church-Stairs and Rotherith-Stairs 0 6 0 3 From St. Olaves to Rotherhith-Church-Stairs and Rotherhith-Stairs 0 6 0 3 From Billingsgate and St. Olaves to St. Saviour's Mill 0 6 0 3 All the Stairs between London-Bridge and Westminster 0 6 0 3 From either side above London-Bridge to Lambeth and Fox-Hall 1 0 0 6 From White-hall to Lambeth and Fox-hall 0 6 0 3 From Temple Dorset Black-Fryars-Stairs and Pauls-Wharf to Lambeth 0 8 0 4 Over the water directly in the next Skuller between London-Bridge and Lime-house or London-Bridge and Fox-hall 0 0 0 2 OARS  Wh. Fare Company  s. d. s. d. FRom London to Gravesend 4 6 0 6 From London to Graise or Greenhive 4 0 0 8 From London to Purfleet or Eriff 3 0 0 6 From London to Woolwich 2 6 0 4 From London to Black-wall 2 0 0 4 From London to Black-Wall 2 0 0 4 From London to Greenwich or Deptford 1 6 0 3 From London to Chelsey Battersey Wandsor 1 6 0 3 From London to Putney Fullam Barn-Elms 2 0 0 4 From London to Hammersmith Chiswick Mortclack 2 6 0 6 From London to Brainford Thistleworth Richmand 3 6 0 6 From London to Twickenham 4 0 0 6 From London to Kingston 5 0 0 9 From London to Hampton-Court 6 0 1 0 From London to Hampton-Town Sunbury and Walton 7 0 1 0 From London to Werbridge and Chortsey 10 0 1 0 From London to Stanes 12 0 1 0 From London to Windsor 14 0 2 0 Rates for Carrying Goods in the Tilt Boat between Gravesend and London A Half Firkin 1 d. a whole Firkin 2 d. a Hogshead ' 2 s. A hundred weight of Cheese Iron or any heavy Goods 4 d. A Sack of Sah or Corn 6 d. An ordinary Chest or Trunk 6 d An ordinary Hamper 6 d. The Hire of the whole Tilt-Boat 1 l. 2 s. 6. d. Every single Person in the ordinary Passage 6 d. What Waterman takes and demands more than these Rates lies liable to pay Forty Shillings and suffer half a years Imprisonment And if he refuse to carry any Passengers or Goods at these Rates upon Complaint made to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen he shall be suspended from his Employment for Twelve Months CHAP. LII A TABLE of KINGS Names Began their Reign Reigned Since they Reigned Y. M. D. W. Con. 1066 Oct. 14 20 11 22 597 Sept. 9 W. Rufus 1687 Sept. 9 22 11 18 584 Aug. 2 Henry 1 1100 Aug. 1 35 4 1 549 Dec. 1 Stephen 1135 Dec. 2 18 11 18 530 Oct. 25 Henry 2 1154 Oct. 25 35 9 1 495 July 6 Richard 1 1189 July 6 9 9 0 485 April 6 John 1199 April 6 17 7 0 468 Oct. 9 Henry 3 1216 Oct. 19 56 1 9 412 Nov. 16 Edward 1 1272 Nov. 16 34 8 6 377 July 7 Edward 2 1307 July 7 19 7 5 358 Jan. 25 Edward 3 1326 Jan. 25 51 5 7 307 June 21 Richard 2 1377 June 21 22 3 14 285 Sept. 29 Henry 4 1399 Sept. 29 13 6 3 271 Mar. 20 Henry 5 1412 Mar. 20 9 5 24 262 Aug. 31 Henry 6 1422 Aug. 31 38 6 8 224 Mar. 4 Edward 4 1460 Mar. 4 22 1 5 201 April 9 Edward 5 1483 April 9 0 2 18 01 June 18 Richard 3 1483 June 2 2 2 5 199 Aug. 22 Henry 7 1585 Aug. 22 23 10 2 175 April 22 Henry 8 1509 April 22 37 10 2 138 July 28 Edward 6 1546 Jan. 28 6 5 10 131 July 6 Mary 1553 July 6 5 4 22 126 Nov. 17 Elizabeth 1558 Nov. 17 44 4 16 82 Mar. 2. James 1602 Mar. 24 22 8 2 59 Mar. 27 Charles 1 1625 Mar. 27 23 10 2 36 Jan. 30 Charles 2 1648 Jan. 30 Whom God long preserve Now may look on Monarchy and sing In Health and Peace long live Great CHARLES our King Note that every King began his Reign when the preceding King ended his CHAP. XLIII Next follows the Names of the principal Fairs in England c. Together with the Month Day and Place where they be kept more exactly than heretofore for the use of all Citizens and others that go to Fairs January THe 5 day at Hicketford in Lancashire the 6 day at Salisbury the Thursday after at Banbury the 25 at Gravesend Bristol Churchingford Northallerton in Yorkshire every Wednesday from Christmas until June February The first day at Bromly in Lancashire the 2 day at Reading in Barkshire Maidstone Bicklesworth Becklesfield Bath Lin Bugwort the 3 day at Brogrove on Valentines day at Owndle in Northamptonshire Feversham the 24 day at Henly upon Thames Baldock on Ashwednesday at Royston Dunstable Eaton Tamworth Tunbridge Lichfield Exeter Cirencester the first Thursday in Lent at Banbury March The 3 day at Bromwel-brakes in Norfolk the 4 at Bedford the 12 at Alsome in Norfolk Sudbury Wooburn the 13 at Wye Bodwin in Cornwall the 20 at Durham the Monday before our lady-Lady-day at Kendal Wisbich the 25 day at Huntington Northampton Malden Ashwel in Hartfordshire Newcastle Mid-lent at Saffron-walden in Essex Goodfriday at Norwich Palmsunday-eve