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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

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 ● 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 ●he Interest of 100 and 5 l. is for 9 Months at 6 per ●ent then in the first Column find out 100 at the foot ●f the Column and right against it under the Title ● Months which is the fifth Column here you 'll find ● l. 10 s. And against the Number 5 l. you shall ●nd 4 s. 6 d. So that the Interest of 100 and 5 l. for ● 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 5● 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 Mo●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

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

otherwise any Hackney-Coach or Coach-Horses within the Parishes comprised within the Bills of Mortality without an especial License from the Commissioners appointed by his Majesty for Licensing and regulating Hackney-Coaches That no Horse Gelding or Mare to be used with such Coaches be under 14 hands high according to the Standard Th●● the number of Coaches so Licensed shall not exceed 400. That every Coach so Licensed shall have a mark of distinction by Figure or otherwise as the Commissioners shall think fit to the end they may be known if any complaint shall be made of them That no person shall be Licensed to keep more than two Coaches which Coaches shall have several Figures or marks of distinction as if belonging to several persons That no person shall put that Figure or mark upon his Coach which is appointed for any other under the forfeiture of five pounds That no person shall be Licensed to drive or keep a Hackney-Coach or Coach-Horses that uses any other Trade or Occupation That first such as have been ancient Coach-men or such Coach-men as have suffered for their Service to His Majesty or his Father or the Widows of such that have Coaches of their own be Licensed That the Commissioners forfeit one hundred pounds for every Coach they License above the number of 400. That no Hackney-Coach-man so Licensed 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 Courts or thereabouts to any part of St. James o● Westminster except beyond Tuttle-street above 12 pence and the like from the same places to the Inns of Courts or thereabouts nor from the Inns of Courts 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 Ten Shillings CHAP. XLXI. The Rates for Car-men ALL Car-men Trading or Working with Carrs in the City of London and Liberties thereof shall and may demand and take for every Carriage or Load of the Commodities under-mentioned the Rates hereafter following that is to say From any the Wharfs between the Tower and London-Bridge to Tower-street Grace-Church-street Fen-Church-street Bishopsgate-street within Cornhill and places of like distance up the Hill with 18 Hundred weight not exceeding 20 Hundred Weight 2 s. 2 d. And being above 20 Hundred Weight for every Hundred 2 s. 2 d. In which may be included Two puncheons of Prunes 2 Bales of Mather 20 Barrels of Figs 2 Fat 's of Fustians 6 ordinary Sacks of Cotton-Wool of Smirna and 3 Cyprus-Bags 2 Butts of Currans 1 great Butt of Oyl 3 Chests of Sugar 8 Bags of Allom 1 Last of Flax 1 Last of Hemp and any other Goods herein not named of the Like weight for every Load 2 s. 2 d. And for Sea-Coals 14 pence the Load every Load to be half a Chaldron and for one Hundred Fagots the like Rate 1 s. 2 d. And from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Broadstreet Lothbury Old Jury Bassishaw Coleman-street Ironmonger-lane St. Lawrence-lane Milk-street Aldermanbury Cheapside Woodstreet Friday-street Breadstreet and places of like distance for the like weight of 18 Hundred not exceeding 20 Hundred weight for the Goods aforesaid and other Goods herein not named of the like weight for every Load 2 s. 6 d. And being above 20 Hundred weight for every Hundred 0 s. 2 d And for Sea-Coals 16 pence the Load every Load to be half a Chaldron and for one Hundred Fagots the like Rate 1 s. 4 d. And from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Smithfield-Bars Holborn-Bars Temple-Bar or any of the Bars on the Northside of the City and places of like distance up the Hill with 18 Hundred weight not exceeding 20 Hundred weight for every Load 3 s. 4 d. And going beyond the said places the parties to agree with the Car-men Also from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Tower-street Bishopsgate-street within Cornhil and other places of like distance up the Hill with 14 Hundred weight not exceeding 18 Hundred Weight 1 s. 10 d Also from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Broadstreet Lothbury Old-Jury Bassishaw Coleman-street Ironmonger-Lane St. Lawrence Lane Milk-street Adermanbury Cheapside Woodstreet Fryday-street Breadstreet and places of the like distance for any of the said Goods of the same quantity and weight for every Load 2 s. 0 d. Also from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Tower-street Grace-Church-street Fenchurch-street Bishopsgate-street within Cornhil and other places of like distance up the Hill with 8 Hundred Weight not exceeding 14 Hundred Weight 1 s. 6 d. And from any the Wharfs aforesaid to Broad-street Lothbury Old Jury Bassishaw Coleman-street Ironmonger-Lane St. Lawrence-Lane Milk-street Aldermanbury Cheapside Wood-street Friday-street and other places of like distance for any other Goods of like Load or Weight for every Load 1 s. 8 d. Also from London-Bridge-foot Westward to the Old Swan Cole-Harbour the 3 Cranes Queen-hith Broken Wharf Paul's Wharf Puddle Wharf the Wardrope and to all other places not exceeding the Poultry Cheapside or Newgate-Market for 13 Hundred weight not exceeding 18 Hundred Weight 1 s. 10 d. And for Sea-Coles 14 pence the Load every Load to be half a Chaldron and for 1 Hundred Fagots the like Rate 1 s. 2 d. And from all other Wharfs and Places between London-Bridge and Temple-Bar to the same and places of like distance for every load of Coles 14 pence every load to be half a Chaldron and 100 of Fagots the like Rate 1 s. 2 d. And to all places Northward of the Poultry Cheapside Newgate-Market Holbourn-Bridge and Fleet-street for 14 hundred Weight not exceeding 18 hundred Weight 2 s. 0 d. And from Tower-street Grace-Churchstreet Fen-Church-street Bishopsgate-street within Cornhil and other places of like distance for every pack of 20 Cloths for 6 bales of Cloths and Kersies 6 bales of Pepper 6 barrels Indico 5 hogsheads of Cloves and for other Goods not herein mentioned of like weight to the Water-side 1 s. 4 d. And from Broad-street Lothbury Old Jury Bassishew Coleman-street Ironmonger Lane St. Lawrence-lane Milk-street Aldermanbury Cheapside Woodstreet Friday-street Bread-street and other places of like distance to the Water-side for the like weight 1 s. 8 d. CHAP. L. Orders for Car-Men THE Car-Men for the foregoing Rates are to help load and unload their Carts If a Car-man exact more than these Rates upon due proof before the Lord Mayor or any two Justices of the Peace he shall suffer Imprisonment for the space of