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A57390	The merchants map of commerce wherein the universal manner and matter relating to trade and merchandize are fully treated of, the standard and current coins of most princes and republicks observ'd, the real and imaginary coins of accounts and exchanges express'd, the natural products and artificial commodities and manufactures for transportation declar'd, the weights and measures of all eminent cities and towns of traffick in the universe, collected one into another, and all reduc'd to the meridian of commerce practis'd in the famous city of London / by Lewis Roberts, merchant.	Roberts, Lewes, 1596-1640.; Mun, Thomas, 1571-1641. England's benefit and advantage by foreign-trade.; Marius, John. Advice concerning bills of exchange.	1700 (1700)	Wing R1601_PARTIAL; Wing M608_PARTIAL; ESTC R1436	687,097	516

32 l. per Rove which at Lisbon is 5 Quintals great 480 Aracoles Whereby it may be discerned that as Sevil hath given the weight to the West-Indies discovered by the Spaniard so hath not Lisbon but in part given the weight to the East-Indies who had amongst themselves there an eminent Trade and consequently their Weight and Measure peculiar to themselves before the Portugal discovered the same Measures of Spain reduced to 100 yards in London As for the Measures of both these Kingdoms as I have done with the Weight in reducing it to the London 100 l. suttle so will I reduce the Measures thereof to the 100 yards of London which rendereth in The 100 Yards of London is in Castilia 111 Vares of 4 quartos and every quarte 2 Palms Toledo 111 Vares Cades 108 Vares   Ditto for Silk 148 Ells.   Andalusia 109 Vares   Aragon 57 Canes   Saragosa 44 Canes   Morocco 181 Covad Both these of 12 to o●… Cove Cap dalgier 141 Covad Sivilia 109 Vares   Granado 109 Vares   Barcelona 57 Canes   Valentia 97 Canes   Lisbon 82 Vares   Ditto for 109 Vares   Ditto for Silk 96 Covades   CHAP. CXXI Of the Trade in general of Portugal and the Kingdom of Spain Of the Trade in general of Portugal and Spain THE Navigations and discoveries of the Spaniards and Portugals into the East and West-Indies though they carried to the world at first the specious colours of Piety and Religion by planting their Superstition in these Heathen Countreys yet Ambition and Profit was doubtless the secret design of their intendments Portugal whose Kings first sought those unknown Regions of the East-Indies and seeking discovered and discovering in part conquered presently made strict Laws and Prohibitions for any of his Subjects to trade for certain the riche● Commodities thereof but himself and thereupon settled his Contrataction-house in Lisbon where those Commodities should be sold weighed and delivered and these bargains being made by Commissioners appointed by him were first from them called Royal Contracts and thus for a long time it continued till his Subjects having made further and ampler discoveries of those Regions for their better incouragement and to induce his People to those Navigations be permitted them afterward an ampler and larger liberty of that Trade reserving certain partic●lar Commodities only to his own use and benefit neither did it otherwise appear in the camage of those who were discoverers of the West-Indies which we find to be the Spaniards see though there wanted not fair and plausible demonstrations of winning the Souls of those pooe People yet by millions they were slaughtered butchered and slain making a devastation in th● Countrey of those innocent Inhabitants as if there had been no way to the eternal life of the So● but by a present death of the body aiming thereby as may be conjectured particularly at the possession only of their Estates which by many deaths and torments was drawn from the●… and converted to their own and their Soverains Treasury as appears to the scandal of their Religion and of their King in sundry of their own Authors published in many Languages These two Countreys then thus discovered and thus by rapine gotten and settled and since united together under one King have afforded the present matter of Trade of all Spain and Portugal which before that time afforded not any Commodities almost whereby Trade might be as much as discerned much less maintained and now Lisbon for the East and Sevil for the West-Indies is become the Staple for all the rich Commodities those two Countreys do afford and so continued till England and Holland by their late Navigation shared with them in the ●…fick and riches thereof which yet are seen to be but as petty branches coming from the principal channel but the West-Indies affording to them great quantity of Silver by the Mines thereof which now is found so abundantly plentiful in the world may be called indeed and in effect their best Commodity which ever since its first coinage they have maintained in its prime weight and sineness which many of their Politicians have gone about at several times to inhanse as if it would have proved a great benefit to their Common-wealth but wiser judgments have discovered that the raising of these moneys in Spain would prove altogether prejudicial to that State for all these Commodities that are brought to them which for the most part they stand in great need of being necessary either for back or belly would soon vanish did not these their moneys allure and attract them and contrariwise it may be hence imagined and I think granted that what other Princes soever doth inhanse his Silver or the moneys of his Countrey it must needs prove to his own proper prejudice and the Spaniards gain because they raise and inhanse a Commodity which is not theirs really but transported to them at second hand by Merchants and others and of which though happily possessing some small Silver Mines of their own yet the gross is still his so far forth as his quantity and abundance exceedeth theirs As for the other Commodities which those Countreys afford ours and many other Nations were with the same from Alexandria and Venice at first supplyed and then hence but now having found the way to the Spring head we daign not to buy of them at the second hand except such of which their Princes reserve to themselves a peculiar interest either by farming the same to their Subjects or keeping the same in their own hands or by excluding all other Nation from the Trade thereof and these we and others are constrained to have from them in which number may be accounted Sugars Tobacco Ginger and some other Drugs and the Commodities of the West-Indies in general Now for the Inhabitants both of Spain and Portugal they are in general lovers of Merchandizing and Traffick neither so much despising it as the French nor yet so much addicted thereto as the Italians yet more willingly adventuring their Estates at Sea than them who herein are found to distrust the Providence of Almighty God in a lawful calling and prefer their own wisdom and providence on Land before the protection of the Almighty at Sea And as they are well-wishers to Trade so are they found in a large measure to practise it in such Cities as occasion and Commodities do either present or permit for both in Sevil and Lisbon are found Merchants of great eminency but yet are such as for the most part bend their Traffick into both the Indies and no where else except peradventure a little to Antwerp in Flanders and into Naples and Sicilia in the Mediterranean Seas and which seldom are noted to adventure their estates or have any Factors resident but where their King is Chief and Sovereign The Raw Silks Wines and Fruits of this Kingdom are the prime Commodities of import it now yields as also Olives Raisins Figs Almonds