Corn is fold here by the Load of 4 Emines, the Load weighs 300 b Marfeilles Weight, or thereabouts, and makes 243 Mark Weight, and 100 Mark Weight makes 123 b Marfeilles Weight, 122 and the Load of Marfeilles makes about 4 Bushels in England, 1 Muid in Amfterdam, 1 Sextier of Paris, and 2 Bushels of Bourdeaux. CALAIS.] Their Measure is the Aun, and they have three Sorts of Weights. The first is the Town Weight, 100 lb whereof makes about 92 in London. The second is called the Merchants Weight, ofi which 100 th makes 113 tb in London. The third is called the English Wool Weight, and is about 3 per Cent. lighter than the Town Wt. Of their Corn Measure, 12 Sextiers of Calais make 13 Sextiers of Paris, 20 Bushels of Bourdeaux, 18 Muids of Amfterdam, and something lefs than 7 Quarters of Corn London Measure. LIONS.] The Aun of this Place is about 1 per Cent. fhorter than the Paris Aun. Their Weights are of two Sorts; the City Weight, which weighs 14 Ounces of the Pound de Marc, for common Ufe, and the other of 15 Ounces for Silk. And 100 b Silk Weight makes 108 of their City Wt. and 100 lb of the City Weight is about 94 Avoirdupois in London. 8 The Corn Measure made use of in this Place is the Afhnee, containing 6 Bufhels, and 14 Afhnee is about one Laft, or 10 Quarters London Measure. All Bills that are drawn upon this Place are payable at the four annual Fairs; and the Ufance of what Bills are drawn from hence upon other Places is the fame as at Paris, The The four Fairs are as follow: The King's Fair begins in January, the Monday after Epiphany. Ditto of Eafter, in April, on St. Nifier's Day. Ditto of All-Saints, in November, on St. Hubert's Day. All Bills are accepted from the first to the fixth Day in each Month, on which Day, if no Holiday happens, the Payments begin, and continue till the laft Day of the Month; which being expired, all Bills left unpaid may be immediately protested, or within three Days must be protested. Lions has Correfpondency with Milan, Genoa, Bologne, Venice, Leghorn, and all other Towns in Italy; and because there are no other Times accustomed to accept Bills of Exchange, the Merchants that refide in this Place have invented a Method of registering their Bills in a Book or Bilan, in which Book they commonly make a little Crofs or Mark upon each Bill therein registered and accepted. But if the Party the Bill is prefented to, fhould demur to the Acceptance, and demand Time to confider on it, then they place upon the Registered V. fignifying, Voir la Lettre, or, The Bill feen. And, at laft, if he should refuse to accept the fame for the Honour of the Drawer, or for fome other Reasons best known to himself, they commonly note the fame in the Bilan with S. P. fignifying, the fame is fous Proteft, or under Proteft; which Bilan of Acceptation, Draughts, and Remittances, thus quoted and registered, carry as much Credit among the Merchants of this Place, as if the fame had been done with Witneffes by a Notary Publick. On the third Day of the Months of the faid Payments, they fettle the Prices of the Exchanges for the fucceeding Courfe of Lions, and on the fixth Day the Merchants of this Place appear in a certain publick Room near the Burfe, carrying their Bilans with them, and fettle their Accounts with each other, by transferring Parcels of Money from one Man's Account to another. The Sum being thus transferred by mutual Confent, and registered in their Books, remains entirely upon the Account and Rifque of the Party that accepts the fame. Of the French Weights in general. The Pound of Mark is well known to the Goldsmiths in France, it being used in weighing Gold, Silver, and other fine Goods. The Pound of Table is used in weighing of grofs Goods, and is found to differ in feveral Places in France from the Mark Weight, 18, 20, or 25 per Cent. that is to fay, it is fo much lighter than a Pound of Mark, especially in Provence, and in Upper or Lower Languedoc, for 16 Ounces of the Pound de Table makes but 14 Ounces of the Pound of Mark. And the Marfeilles Weight is lighter than thofe of Rochel, between 23 and 25 per Cent. What they call a Quintal in France must be understood the Hundred Weight of 104 lb, and an Half 52, the Quarter 26, and the half Quarter 13 lb Weight. In fome Places a Difference is made between 100 lb Weight and a Quintal, therefore the Buyer and Seller muft explain themselves upon this Head in making of Bargains; at Roan they have another another Sort of Weight called the Pounds de Vicompt, or Vicount; and 100 lb of this Vicount Weight is counted to make about 108 or 110 b Mark, or Paris Weight, efpecially in weighing of Wool; but in weighing other Things the faid 100 lb is counted 104 b Mark Weight. They have no lefs Weight of the Vicompt Weight than 13 b, fo that all Goods weighing under that Weight are weighed by the Mark Weight. They have another Sort of Weight used in France, called the Roman or Statera Weight, used mostly in Languedoc, which is much the fame for Weight as the Table Weight. Of the Auns and Canes of France. 100 Canes of Marfeilles and Montpellier are 286 Auns in Amfterdam. 4 2 3 100 Canes of Tholouse are 266 in Ditto. 100 French Ells are 205 in Hamburgh, 2134 in Breslaw, 1663 in Brabant, 136 Baras in Spain, 171 Cavadoes in Portugal, 128 Yards in London, 175 Brace in Venice, 1993 ditto in Florence and Leghorn. N. B. The French Ell is about 23 per Cent. longer than an English Ell. The The Par of the Money of France with London. One Livre in Specie is worth 18 Amfterdam. 6 Livres is worth 5 Florins. Flemish; fo that one Livre is worth 2s. Spain. 34 Livres is worth 95 Rials Old Dantzick. One Livre is worth Florin of Frankfort. 2 Livres is worth 1 Florin of Hamburgh. One Livre is worth 1 Lubish To Mark. |