100 Ells St. Gall Woollen Measure make 89+ Ells in Amfterdam, 107 Ells in Hamburgh, and 53 in Geneva. St. Gall gives to IN The Course of the Exchanges of St. Gall. Vienna, Noremberg, Augsburg, and Bolzana, from 105 to 115 Florins St. Gall Money. for 100 Florins of those Places. Venice, 150 to 170 Florins for 100 Ducats B°. Geneva, 100 to 110 Cruitzers for the Crown of Geneva. Lions, 90 to 100 ditto for an Ecu Tournois. N this Place they keep their Accounts in Flo-, rins, Cruitzers, and Hellers. A Florin is 16 Batz, or 40 Shillings, or 60 Cruitzers Zurich Money. A Batzen is 2 Shillings, or 3 Cruitzers Zurich Money. A Shilling is 2 Cruitzers, or 20 Hellers; and 8 Hellers is a Cruitzer, They make their Exchange with other Places most commonly in their Zurich Money, reckoning their Rixdollars (worth about 4s. 6d. Sterling) at 108 Cruitzers Zurich Money. And their Florin, at 15 good or bad Batzen, or 60 Cruitzers, or 480 Hellers. IN SECT. IV. The fame of Bazil, or Bafle. N this Canton they keep their Accounts, fome in Rixdollars, Sols, and Deniers; fome in Livres, Sols, and Deniers; fome in Rixdollars, Cruitzers, and Phennings; and fome in Florins, Cruitzers, and Phennings. A Rixdollar is 3 Livres, or 20 d. Gold, or 60 common, or 108 Čruitzers; a Livre is 20 d. common, or 36 Cruitzers; a Florin is 60 Cruitzers; and a Sol or Penny is 12 Deniers. 2 They have another Sort of Money, which confifts entirely in Grofhen and Plapperts, reckoning 7 Lappen to a Groshen, 6 Rappen to a Plappert, and 10 Rappen to a good Batzen. The Rixgoulds, or 16 Grofhén, or Pieces, which pafs in the adjacent Parts of the Empire, are called the ordinary Goulds, and are 20 per Cent. worse than the Switzer Money. And the Rixgould, it is faid, paffes current in fome Places in Switzerland for 40 Lucern Shillings, they being worth but 13 Batzen, and one Switz Shilling. Now the Switzer Shillings are of two Sorts; thofe of Lucern, and thofe of Zercher; an 100 Zercher Shillings being worth 125 Lucern Shillings, fo that the Zercher Shillings are worth 25 per Cent more than the Lucern; and their Rixdollar, which is worth about 4s. 6d. Sterling, paffes current among them at 72 Zercher Shillings, or go Lucern ones. Now Now all the above-mentioned Money are the real Coins of Switzerland, excepting the ordinary Goulds above-mentioned; but they all pafs current in Zercher (or Zurich) Fair, and therefore great Care ought to be taken in Buying and Selling, that a Difference may be made between the Zercher and Switzer Coins. IN SECT. V. The fame of Strafburg. N this Place they keep their Accounts in Rixdollars and Cruitzers, or in Florins and Cruitzers, or in Florins, Shillings, and Pence, or in Pounds, Shillings, and Pence. Their Current Coins. A Rixdollar is valued at 1 Florin, or 15 Shillings, or 90 Cruitzers, or 3 Livres, or 60 Sols. A Florin is 10 Shillings, or 60 Cruitzers, or 2 Livres, or 40 Sols. A Livre is 20 Sols, or 5 Shillings, or 30 Cruitzers. A Shilling is 6 Cruitzers, or 4 Sols. They exchange for moft Places in the Silver of Alface, which is the fame with the Silver of France; they reckoning the Rixdollar at 3 Livres Tournois. The Agio is 1 or 2 per Cent. HA T CHAP. IX. Of HAMBURGH. AMBURGH is the principal Place of SECT. I. Of the Bank of Hamburgh. HE Bank of Hamburgh is thought to be one of the best and fecureft in Europe. It is under the Direction and Management of four of the most eminent Perfons of the City, who are at certain Seasons elected by the whole Body of the Republick, who ftand engaged to make good all Deficiencies and Diminutions that may happen by Connivance among the Officers, Directors, or Managers, or by Embezzlements otherways. However, to prevent thefe Things, the Officers are obliged to ftate and clear all their Accounts twice a Week. They do here, as in Amfterdam, receive only) the finest and best of their Currency in the Bank, and will allow or per Cent. to any Person that 4 3 makes them Payments in Rixdollars. This Bank is under much the fame Regulations as that of Amfterdam; and all Perfons who do any Business therein are subject to many Fines and Penalties. As for Inftance; no Sum under an 100 Marks can be entered in the Bank; and for every Sum that is under 300 Marks, 2 Stivers must be paid for for entering it: And if there happens to be any odd Sum of 9, 10, or 11 Deniers, they write down a Stiver; and if it be 7 or 8, they write but 6 Deniers; and if it be a smaller Sum, they take no Notice of it. The Time for writing in the Bank is from 7 to 10 in the Morning. You may write therein at any Hour from 10 to 1, or from 3 to 5, but then you must pay 2 Stivers for every Sum that shall be entered in the Hours from 10 to 1, or from in the Afternoon. 3 to 5 The Time for enquiring if a Sum has been entered in the Bank is from 7 to 10 in the Morning; not but a Person may be informed at any of the Hours between 10 in the Morning, and 5 in the Afternoon, if he pays 2 Stivers; but then he may afk divers other Questions of the like Nature at the fame Time without any further Charge. But the Merchants, and other confiderable Dealers in the Bank, do commonly give to the Book-keepers 20, 30, or 40 Marks per Annum for any extraordinary Trouble they may chance to give them at undue Hours: And they do the fame in Amsterdam; but it seems that none but the Inhabitants of that City have the Liberty of keeping Accounts in the Bank. And if a Stranger is defirous to keep an Account therein, he is obliged to pay a confiderable Sum of Money for having an Account opened for him; that is to fay, he must first purchase his Freedom of the City of Hamburgh. Not but the Bank will lend Money to Strangers, as well as Citizens, upon their pledging to them the Value in Jewels, Plate, or the like Security, to restore the like Sum with Interest in 6 Months |