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A06786	Consuetudo, vel lex mercatoria, or The ancient law-merchant Diuided into three parts: according to the essentiall parts of trafficke. Necessarie for all statesmen, iudges, magistrates, temporall and ciuile lawyers, mint-men, merchants, marriners, and all others negotiating in all places of the world. By Gerard Malynes merchant.	Malynes, Gerard, fl. 1586-1641.	1622 (1622)	STC 17222; ESTC S114044	480,269	516

numbred proportionated and weighed which is the cause of the diuersitie of things existant of Matter Forme and Depriuation whereof euen the letters to describe them are numbred and the figures of the leaues of herbes and plants doe declare their vertues Vpon this ground of naturall Arithmeticke is Geometrie builded Geometrica for the proportions of all measures drawne from vnitie which is the fountaine of numbers whereby measures are described before the art of it was inuented Is it not my only and first obseruation that Musicke was practised by the sound of the hammers of Tubalcayn vpon the Anuile Mu●●ca whereby so many and sundrie musicall instruments haue beene deuised Lastly for Arts Liberall Astrologi● Is not Astrologie obserued by the Wit of the Aegyptians in many hundreth yeares whereby they haue found out the course of the Heauens and Starres with their distances and dimensions explaned by Arithmetick and Geometrie whence the Inch Thumbe Finger Palme Hand Cubit Brace Foot Pace and all other measures and proportions haue beene deriued The little infant not three yeares old was taught by me to discerne his portion in eating pottage with the pig saying take a spoone pig when the slabbering of the pig carried away the bigger part for I did note before Euclide that the whole is bigger than his part which diuided into equall parts are all alike You that are passing by stay and pause a while looke vpon Natural Mother Wit that hath obserued the beginnings progresse continuance and end of all things wherein I do supplie and disguise many defects and deformities both in the mind and bodie of man and when there is found by me abilitie of Nature then Art giueth facilitie as a Maxime in Physicke I found A Maxime in Physicke that contraria contrarijs curantur and that the franticke man is excepted out of this rule for he must be fed in his humerous disease for he that did imagine that he was dead and therefore forbeare to eate was made beleeue by the sight of counterfeit dead men eating that dead men did eate whereby he fell to his victuals and saued his life and at last was cured I made the deafe Musitian of Bridges to vnderstand all men in three seuerall languages Master Verh●uen An●o 1585. only by obseruing the motion of the lips without hearing of any voice or sound at all It was I that made the blind man in Antuerpe to make in a darke place rare wooden trumpets of excellent sound and carued images of his owne inuention as also by the imitation of other pictures only by the sense of feeling and vnto mee belongeth the inuention of spectacles prospectiues and other preseruatiues of sight and remedies for all the other senses It was I that by orgaines of the mouth being touched by a sticke held vpon the virginalls and resting vpon the teeth caused the deafe musitian to teach mens children to play vpon them whereby he got his liuing I did teach the maiden to sow and write with her feet when both her hands were lame and impotent And vnto others I did shew meanes to cure lamenesse giuing strength to the sinowes onely by rubbing and conducting the bloud into the veines by a warme hand without art for I did obserue that in the Microcosme The naturall cures of th● bodie or the little world of mans bodie there are diuers naturall cures and remedies namely The spittle dissolued into water and powred into the eare cureth deafenesse taketh away itching or ebulition of the blood and clenseth inuetorated wounds and scratchings The sweat of the feet by smelling cureth the palsie The eare waxe anointed in the nostrils comforteth the smelling The vrine laid on with browne paper asswageth the paine of the gout The excrement laid on qualifieth the immoderate heate of the bodie The pairing of the nailes taketh away the drowsines of the braine The fleagme dissolued openeth the conduit pipes The coldnesse of the hands applied to the head taketh away the dolour of the brain and many other obseruations may be vsed in liew of other remedies The iudgement which Salomon gaue betweene the two women which were st●iuing for the child Naturall witty iudgements vpon the diuiding and partition of it did it not proceed of mother wit by naturall reason Alphonsus King of Naples vpon a deniall that a father made who would not acknowledge his sonne because of some priuate quarrell was aduised by mee to commaund the sonne to bee sold for a slaue and then nature could not faile to shew her operation which in like manner caused Claudius the Emperour to command a malitious mother to marrie her sonne denied by her who rather than to doe the same did acknowledge and confesse him to be her sonne Naturall wit made the Bees to discerne the naturall flowers from the artificiall flower although the same was made of wax and did retaine the smell and sweetnesse of honie And I haue obserued the naturall and violent passion of the loue of parents to their children in so much that not many yeares since a father thinking to haue beaten his sonne receiued a mortall wound at his sonnes hands being thrust in with a sword through his bellie did not cease to crie vntill death that his sonne should flie thereby to escape the punishment of justice Infinit are my experiments in Nature before Art was but tell me Art canst thou make any thing but of things alreadie made putting a distinct determination betweene things for the better vnderstanding whereunto Art replying said and plainely confessed that she could do no more without Mother Wit than an artizan or crafts-man can do without materialls tooles in matter of his profession or occupation And hereupon did Mother Wit conclude not onely to haue the precedencie of Art but also to be able to controll Art without either Logicke or Rhetoricke Naturall Logicke The countrie Coridon hauing a scholler to his sonne demanded of his sonne what rare things and exceeding his ordinarie knowledge he had learned whilest they were at dinner the sonne seeing two roasted chickens in a dish told his father that he could make him beleeue that these two chickens were three which was admirable both to his father and all his guests the sonne being thereby inflamed said looke sir here is one pointing at the chicken and here is two pointing at the other chicken and no man can denie but that one and two are three but Coridons Wit did proue actiue for he gaue his wife one chicken and tooke the other chicken to himselfe and willed his sonne to take the third chicken for his learning if he could find it whereby Art was controlled * ⁎ * CHAP. XX. Of the Ancient Gouernment of the Staple THE precedent short commendation of Mother Wit ministreth an occasion to enter into a retrograde consideration how the course of Trade was managed heeretofore remembring in this particular the Prouerbiall speech Nil nout sub

eightie aspers euerie asper is ten Macharines At Alexandria in Aegypt they account by ducats There is ducat de Pargo making three ducats of Venice Ducat de Pargo also Italian ducats of thirtie and fiue maids and the Venice ducat is better and maketh fortie maids Marke Scots At Edenborough in Scotland Exchanges are made vpon the marke peece of siluer which is valued in England at 13 ½ pennie being otherwise 13⅓ pennie or thirteene shillings foure pence Scots So one marke and a halfe Scots is twentie shillings Scots and twentie pence sterling is one pound Scottish Pound Scots which is twelue to one The 18 peeces of twentie shillings is by the said Valuation twentie shillings three pence and the Taker vp of the money at London payeth for twelue pence the said marke of 13 ⅓ pence at two or three moneths Time in Scotland as they can agree Pound Irish. At Dublin in Ireland the fifteene shillings sterling is one pound Irish of twentie shillings whereupon Exchanges are made with allowance of sixe pence or eight pence vpon euerie pound payable at London and for want of a Mint no Bullion is imported thither and Exchanges are diuerted into other parts At London all Exchanges are made vpon the pound sterling of twentie shillings and twelue pence to the shilling for Germanie Pound sterling the Low-countreys and other places of trafficke and for France vpon the French Crowne for Italy and Spaine and other places vpon the Ducat or for the Doller and Florin in some places according to the Custome of the place Whereof more particularly is to be obserued in the course of Exchanges CHAP. IIII. Of the Times of Payment of Moneys by Exchange and the Termes of Art vsed therein THE discrepance of Time for the payment of moneys by Exchange hath a regard to the distance of the place or places where the money is to bee payed wherein we may consider three kindes of diuersities called by the Termes of Art in matter of Exchange at Sight Vsance and double Vsance or treble The taking and deliuering money at Sight At Sight bindeth the Taker vp of the moneys to giue his Bill of Exchange directed vpon his friend Factor or Seruant in any place beyond the Seas to pay vpon Sight of it or within three foure or more dayes so much money as hath been taken vp by him after such a rate the Pound Doller Ducat or Crown as is agreed vpon betweene them in forraine coyne either according to the Valuation of monies or currant money for merchandise which is more ordinarie because Merchants will admit sometimes to receiue some coynes at a higher rate than they are valued vpon occasion that some Species are required for transportation or some other vse to make paiments Policie of Estates which tolleration is by authoritie many times suffered to draw moneys vnto their places of jurisdiction Heerein is to be noted That if the Bill be made payable at so many dayes Sight that the number of dayes must bee expressed in the Bill or Bills for commonly there are made three Bills of one Tenor for euerie summe of money taken vp because if one Bill bee lost the other may serue in place The second Time of payment called Vsance At Vsance which is either the Time of one moneth two or three moneths after the date of the Bill of Exchange as heereafter is declared according to the Custome of the places where these Exchanges doe runne according to which Time the partie vpon whom the Bill of Exchange is directed is to pay the same vnlesse there be good cause to the contrarie as shall appeare hereafter Double Vsance and treble Vsance The third Time of paiment called double Vsance is either two or more moneths or alwayes double the Time of the Vsance respecting by Custome the course thereof and many times Exchanges are made vpon the halfe Vsance which is fifteene dayes But considering the wind and other hinderances it is better to limit the dayes after Sight in the Bill of Exchange and to send the same by Sea and Land with a Letter of Aduice which the Taker of money commonly doth deliuer with the Bill of Exchange whereunto the Bill maketh also relation and treble Vsance is accordingly Payments in Faires or Marts There is another Time for the paiment of Exchanges where great payments are made as in Faires or Marts as at Madrill and Medina del Campo by three Ferias in the yeare at Lyons by foure payments yearely and at Frankford twice euerie yeare c. The difference of the times of payment doe alter the price of Exchanges according to the Time commonly after twelue fifteene or twentie in the hundreth by the yeare So betweene the pound sterling Exchanged for the Low-countries at Sight and Vsance is betweene foure and fiue pence and double Vsance and Vsance sixe or seuen pence which ordinarily was accounted to bee but foure pence after 10 pro 100. But for the Faires and Marts it is verie vncertaine because the payments are all at one Time and the neerer the Faires are at hand Consideration in Exchanges the more shall the Taker vp of the money saue by paying lesse interest because he hath not had the vse of the money from the beginning that Exchanges were made for the Faires which in questionable matters is verie considerable Vsance from London to and from Middleborough Amsterdam Antuerpe Bridges and other places in the Low-countreys is one moneths Time from the date of the Bill of Exchange and double Vsance is two moneths Vsance for Hamborough is two moneths and for Venice three moneths Vsance from Antuerp to Rome is two moneths and from Lyons to Rome one moneth Vsance from Antuerp to Venice is two moneths to bee payed in Banke Vsance at Florence is two moneths and from Florence to London three moneths Vsance from Genoa to Rome and Naples is ten dayes Sight and for Palermo and Antuerp is two moneths by ordinarie obseruation and so is Luca From Naples to Antuerp is two monethes and the like for Palermo Vsance for Roan and Paris is one moneth but commonly at three weekes Sight From Antuerp and London to Seuill is two moneths Castile payments are in three Bankes and Ferias de Villalon Medina del Campo and Medina del Rio Sicco but many times prolonged by the King of Spaine Vsance from Lixborne to London and Antuerp is two moneths which Merchants are to know because the Bills of Exchanges doe not declare the same CHAP. V. Of the Nature of Bills of Exchanges THE Nature of a Bill of Exchange is so noble and excelling all other dealings betweene Merchants that the proceedings therein are extraordinarie and singular and not subiect to any prescription by Law or otherwise but meerely subsisting of a reuerend Custome vsed and solemnized concerning the same For the better declaration whereof let vs set downe the forme of a Bill of Exchange from