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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

part thereof again with them 7. If Cities and Market-Towns be impoverished and depopulated for want of Trade the Kingdom may then be obnoxious to its Enemies upon all occasions For these use to be the Fence and Bulwarks of a Country insomuch that in some other Countries they are so far from admitting of Tradesmen to live in Villages that their Gentry do not live there but in the great Cities and Towns by which means they have greater Towns than we generally have and most of their Towns are walled and so are not only able to resist an Enemy but also upon all occasions to succour and save those that shall fly unto them Furthermore the Kings of England have been always furnished with men for their Wars out of the Cities and Market-Towns of this Kingdom and the greater Trade there is in any place the more people commonly there are in that place Therefore it concerns this Kingdom to have Trade promoted and encouraged in Cities and Market-Towns that so we might have people enough at all times to resist an Enemy that shall oppose us Besides poor and beggerly Cities and Market-Towns are a very great disparagement to a Country but the contrary is a great honour For what more graceful to a Kingdom than the many rich and wealthy Cities and Towns therein for this reason as well as for all those already mentioned all Persons that are of publick spirits should do all they can to advance them by encouraging of their Trade and no one way can do it more effectually than to suppress those that do take their Trades from them And as Shop-keepers in Villages are a very great injury to Market-Towns in the Country even so are they to the City of London that have since the fire set up in Covent-Garden and on that side of the City by which means many of the Houses and Shops are not tenanted and those which are the Rents of them are exceedingly fallen and all this is for want of the Trade that they had formerly Now considering what a renowned City that is both for Government for Trade and for stately Edifices that it 's thought there is not the like in the whole World and considering the great charge that they have been at in the rebuilding of it it is very requisite that they should be encouraged as much as may be and that their Trade should not be taken may by such ways and means as these are Now there are some Trades whose Commodities are such that it would be very little more trouble for any one to go into the City to buy them than to go to Covent-Garden such as Woollen or Linnen-Cloth Stuffs or Hangings for Rooms or Plate or the like If then all such Trades were prohibited from setting up on that side of the City it would presently fill their Shops and Houses with People and their City with Trade I had thought to have treated here how the Shop-keepers are inconvenienced to get in their small debts which cannot be done any way without putting the People concerned to three times more charges than the debts are which is likewise a great hinderance to the poor as well as unto them but this I shall omit CHAP. XVI Of Pedlars and petty Chapmen THese are such that do proffer Wares to sale by Retail either by crying it in Cities and Market Towns or by offering it from door to door all about the Country and which do greatly add to the number of Shop-keepers for they carry their Shops at their backs and do sell more that way than many Shop-keepers do in their Shops which is not only a prejudice unto them but if they are suffered will in time be the utter ruine of all the Cities and Market Towns in England for of late there is not any Commodity to be named and that can be any way ported but that the Pedlar doth carry all about the Country to sell that people after awhile will have little or no occasion to come to the Cities or Market Towns for any thing This also was not wont to be formerly and ought not to be now as will appear if it be considered how much in these following particulars the Shop-keepers are beneficial to the Commonwealth of this Kingdom and in how few of these the Pedlars are beneficial unto the same 1. The Shop keepers do bear a very great proportion in all the Taxes of this Kingdom whether Parochial or National but the Pedlars do pay but little or no Taxes at all and if in Taxes they were to bear no more proportion than the Pedlars it may be quaeried whether or no Taxes might be so easily gathered 2. The Shop-keepers do bear likewise all manner of Offices whether Parochial or National which are very expensive unto them but Pedlars bear no Offices at all 3. The Shop-keepers do pay great Rents for the houses that they live in which are more certain Rents to the Gentry than their Lands but the Pedlars pay little or no Rent at all for most of them do lye in Barns And if the Rents should fall in Cities and Market Towns in England as they do in most places especially in the City of London they are never like to be rais'd again by Pedlars 4. The Shop-keepers do keep good Houses and do relieve the Poor at their doors spending abundance of meat and other of the Farmers Commodities in their Families for which they do always pay ready money But the Pedlars are so far from being beneficial to the Commonwealth in this particular that they are burthensom unto the same for they beg the most part of their Victuals and the Country people when the men are in the Field and there hath been none at home but Women and Children have been forced to relieve them for fear of being mischieved by them 5. They and their Families do wear out abundance of Cloths which doth promote the Trade of the Nation but it is very little advance of any Trade that the Pedlars do make herein for their Cloths do differ little from Beggars and did they wear better yet they could not wear out much because few of them have Families to do it 6. The Shop-keepers Trade is esteemed creditable enough for the preferment of the best mens Sons in the Kingdom next unto the Nobility but so is not the Pedlars Trade for surely sufficientmen would disdain to have their Sons Pedlars and to wander about the Country like Vagabond Rogues as they do 7. The Shop-keepers being sufficient mens Sons and being soberly and religiously Educated they come to have for the most part of them such principles in them that they detest to use any indirect way in their dealings And if they had not this inward principle yet the consideration how prejudicial any such thing would be unto them in their Trades by reason of their fixed Habitations doth make them to do that which is right and just in their dealings But neither of these can rationally sway

entred and the Work is the same as for Goods Outwards only you alter the Ships and Masters Name and mention that it comes home instead of going out Other Assurances are made upon Goods that are sent by Waggon or Cart c. by Land from all Robbers or Thieves c. Other Assurances are made upon the Lives of Men and Women at a Rate that is moderate For by this means if you buy any Place or Office that is worth 100 l. or more or less and you have not money enough to purchase it you borrow 4 or 500 l. Now if you die and are not in a condition to pay this money it is lost But if you Ensure your Life then your Friend that you did borrow it of will have his money honestly paid him Some Assurances are likewise made on the Heads of men as if a man going for the Streights and perhaps is in some fear that he may be taken by Moors or Turkish Pyrats and so made a Slave for the Redemption of whom a Ransom must be paid he may ere he goes on Ship-board go to the Insurance Office and advance a Premio accordingly upon a Policy of Assurance And if he be taken into Slavery in the Voyage the Assurer or Assurers must answer the Ransom that is secured to be paid on the Policy Of Factors and Commissions A Factor is a Servant created by a Merchants Letters to buy and sell Goods for another mans account and receives a certain Sallery called Factorage or Commission for his pains but is not to run any manner of Risk or Hazard if the Goods be lost or burnt or any Accident happen he is not to bear it and for the bad Debts if there happen any the Factor is not to bear it unless he goes contrary to his Order that doth employ him then in such cases the Factor is to bear the loss and not the Proprietor As suppose you have advice of a parcel of Spices coming on board such a Vessel for you to dispose of for the account of a Merchant at Amsterdam and the Goods do not come to your hands but perish at Sea that is nothing to you But if they come to your hands and you have a true order from him for the entring of the same and paying the Custom should of your own head or by any Accident or mistake enter the Goods false and the same should be seized the loss would lie at your door or if he orders you not to sell these Goods but for ready Money and you sell them for one Month or for any time and the Debt become bad it will be at your door And so in the buying any manner of Goods if the Goods be not according to order the man may refuse them when he hath received them and the dammage shall fall upon you And as Fidelity Diligence and Honesty are expected from the Factor so the Law requires the like from the Principal judging the act of one to be the act of the other Therefore if a Merchant shall remit counterfeit Jewels to his Factor who sells and disposes them for valuable considerations as if they were right if the Factor receives any loss or prejudice thereby by Imprisonment or other punishment the Principal shall not only make good the Damage to the Factor but also render Satisfaction to the Party damnified And so it was adjudged where one How was possest of three counterfeit Jewels and having Factors in Barbary and knowing one Southern a Merchant was Resident on the Place consigns those Jewels to his Factor who receiving them intreated Southern to sell those Jewels for him telling him that they were good Jewels Whereupon Southern not knowing they were counterfeit sold them to the King of Barbary for 800 l. they being worth really but 100 l. and delivered the Money to the Factor who remitted the same to How The King of Barbary not long after finding himself cozened committed Southern to Prison till he had repay'd the 800 l. Whereupon Southern coming for England brought his Action against How and had Judgment to recover his damage The Satisfaction that Factors have for their pains in buying and selling is called Commission or Factorage which is done at several Prices in several Places according to the custom of the Country In some Countries they take 8 and 10 per Cent. as at Barbadoes Jamaica Virginia and most of those Western Parts In others 2½ and three per Cent. as generally throughout all Italy two per Cent. as in France Spain Portugal c. 1½ per Cent. as in Holland and in other places but the generality only take throughout Europe 2 per Cent. Of Discount Discount is when you sell a parcel of Goods at three months time and a day or two after the Buyer comes and tells you he is willing to pay you the mony presently if you will allow him the Discount which is generally after the rate of 6 or 8 or 10 per Cent. per Annum as you can agree with him and to be sure the Buyer will look to your necessity of mony in compounding for the rate of Discount and take the advantage thereof for a greater abatement than ordinary So that I have known some who having sold a parcel of Goods amounting to 400 l. at three months time and the Buyer perceiving the Sellers necessities of mony to be great have brought him to Discount 6 months at the rate of 10 per Cent. per Annum so that for the 400 l. which would have been paid at the end of 3 months there was paid but 380 l. down But for my part I either think such sellers case near desperate that compound at so large a rate of Discount or else that he hath over-reacht his Chapman in the Goods sold him But though this be often found amongst some Inferiour Merchants or whole-sale-men to abate solargely for Discount yet it is not the general course of Discount practised amongst Merchants and Dealers that value their reputations who projecting to transact all affairs that some profit may result did with very good reason condescend to a competent abatement for prompt payment of monies that some profit might redound to the party paying which abatement is properly called Discount and is thus understood and calculated between Merchant and Merchant Suppose A. is to receive of B. 200 l. six months hence B. offers to pay A. presently if he will Discount at 6 per Cent. per Annum A. condescends and they agree Now to know what A. must allow B. for Discount do thus First reduce your 200 l into Pence the Product will be 48000 Pence then multiply those Pence by 6 the number of months to be discounted for the Product will be 288000 which divide by 200 and the quantity of time that is to be allowed both which make 206 for your Divisor the Quotient will be 1398 6 103 Pence which reduct into Shillings is 116 s. 6 d. 6 103 parts of a peny

this reduct into Pounds makes 5-16-6 6 103 and so much must be abated out of the 200 l. for the 6 months Discount and no more according to the true method received amongst Merchants And the reason of it is this because if you allow 6 l. then you allow the full Interest of 200 l. for 6 months but you do not receive 200 l. and wherefore then should you allow the Interest for 200 l. You must only allow the Interest of what you do receive which is 196 l. The aforesaid Rule is not only true for any even Sum to be Discounted but for any old broken Sum always remembring to add the number of months to be Discounted for to 200 and let that be your Divisor CHAP. XXVI Of Customs Subsidies and Impositions paid upon Commodities This may be of dayly use for Merchants WHereas Customs Subsidies Impositions Toles Excises Imposts and other duties by the exemplary Actions of Princes and Common-Weals are due by the Law of Nations as a matter inherent to their Prerogatives because they are absolute Commanders in their Harbours Havens and Ports where Commodities are exported every Merchant is bound to take notice thereof and to observe the same according to the ordinances and proceedings used therein in all Countries respectively to avoid the danger of the loss and forfeiture of his Commodities and to make a true calculation how to buy and sell to profit observing how much upon the hundred pounds in value of his Commodities rated by the orders of divers Countries the same amounteth unto and to add the same with the charges upon Commodities to the price whereat the said Commodities were brought as well in his Native Country as in other Countries where he doth traffick and trade In Russia Denmark and Sweden the Custom and Ordinance is if a Merchant do not declare all his Commodities which he importeth or exporteth but concealeth some part of them all the Commodities of that kind are forfeited to the Prince and he shall find but small favour to redeem them In Spain and other Dominions of the King of Spain the Commodities concealed are only forfeited unless they be prohibited and unlawful Goods In England Scotland and Ireland is the like and only the Goods concealed are forfeited and may be had again upon reasonable composition For the Statute Law giveth Authority to the Officer who maketh the seizure that upon Licence sued forth to compound he may do it safely for his part which is the one moyety and for the other moyety which is the Kings Merchants are graciously dealt withal by the Judges or Barons of the Kings Exchequer or others thereunto Authorised Insomuch that it hath happened that some Merchants relying upon this favourable dealing have adventured to expose their Commodities unto the forfeiture thereof being Commodities which pay much Custom and Imposition as Cambricks Lawns Tobacco Cocheneale Venice Gold Thred and other things because they were in a manner assured to make composition under the sum which they were to pay for Custom and Imposition In France and Germany is ●he●● like for concealed Commodities which are not declared in the Custom-house and Jewels and precious Stones and Pearis are freed of Custom And so it was in England until of late Years since the Customs were taken to Farm and yet they pay but three per Cent. of the value of their appraisement to be rated by the Officers of the Custom-house at London But if any Merchant or Jeweller bring over any Jewels or precious Stones and Pearls he is to declare them to the Officers or Waiters of the Place where he Landeth otherwise they will be seized by water or land as forfeited to the King wherein more strict dealing hath been used of late since the King hath letten to Farm his moyety of the Seizures So that first of all the Custom of concealed Goods must be paid before any composition be made next the Composition being made then may the Informer be agreed withal And no Commodities can be delivered upon security to the owner as formerly by the Law was accustomed to be done but they must remain in some sufficient Custody until the matter be tryed by Law or compounded by Agreement But prohibited Commodities as Allom and other things by Letters Patents and Proclamation the possession may be had upon security to be given to answer the value thereof according to the appraisement made of them And these Commodities if the Master of the Ship do not declare them upon his Entry made in the Custom-house upon his Oath are also subject to the Forfeiture although they come consigned unto a Merchant or Factor unawares by another Merchant that knew not that such Commodities were prohibited to be imported The like is for a Merchant shipping out unlawful Wares but herein he may have intelligence by the Customer before he do lay them upon the Water to be shipped Again if a Merchant carry money by Water down to Gravesend with an Intention to bestow the same in Bays at Sandwich or in other Commodities at ●anterbury he is first to declare the same in the Searchers Office or else the Money is lost and three times the value upon Information For no mony of Gold or Silver or any foreign Coyn or Plate brought into the Kingdom can be transported only for Passengers expences some four or five pounds may be carried out But for Commodities brought in which have paid Custom the same may be Shipped out again by Coquet without paying any more Custom and Imposition so it be done upon good Certificate that it is the same Commodity and that the property thereof is not altered and this must be done within six months after their Importation All Merchants Ships being laden have always time out of mind been permitted to break bulk below or at Tilbury-Hope and to pay no Custom but for the Goods they brought up or Landed in England and not for the Goods which they did Transport in the said Ship or in any other Vessel or Ship which priviledge and certainty of Merchants Custom ought to be seriously observed better than it hath been of late And of this and other observations Merchants and Factors are to give notice to their Friends and Masters to the end they do not incur any danger which to avoid in some sort is effected by entring the Goods upon sight of the Customers view by opening of them In Barbary and other places where the Customs are paid in kind or species if any part be concealed and not entred that only will be forfeited and yet the loss is greater because they will make choice of the best As for example Suppose a Merchant doth enter divers sorts of Linnen Cloth and concealeth some pieces the Officers will take both the tenth piece for the Custom and all the concealed pieces of the best and finest sorts to your exceeding great loss In the Low-Countries and Germany as also in most places of Italy and Turkey you shall

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-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