The negociator's magazine of monies and exchanges In three parts Part I Contains advice and instructions, relating to bills of exchange, the monies of one country compared with another; the way to know what one country gets of another at any time by the exchange; as also, an account of the English gold and silver coins .. with their present standards and weights at this time Part II Shows the real and imaginary monies, the current prices of the exchanges; and the method to calculate them for most places in Europe .. Part III Contains arbitrations of the exchanges, and that universal rule made
The negociator's magazine of monies and exchanges In three parts Part I Contains advice and instructions, relating to bills of exchange, the monies of one country compared with another; the way to know what one country gets of another at any time by the exchange; as also, an account of the English gold and silver coins .. with their present standards and weights at this time Part II Shows the real and imaginary monies, the current prices of the exchanges; and the method to calculate them for most places in Europe .. Part III Contains arbitrations of the exchanges, and that universal rule made use of by merchants and negociators in all their reductions and calculations .. as also, how exchange is reckoned; of brokerages and provision, with useful observations upon the prices or courses of the exchange . The Low Countries, H 0 L L A 1^ D, OR, The Seven United Provinces of the Netherlands, known to us in L o N d o N bythe Name of Holland. Of the B A N K S of Amsterdam and Rotterdam, AND OF THE Monies and Exchanges. H E Bank of Ainjlerdajn was eftabUfhed\ by the Authority of the States-General,in the Month of Januarj 1609. And forthe fpeedier Improvement of it, it wasdetermined that all Payments of Bills ofExchange, or Sums for Goods, not being under 600Florins, Ihould be made in the Bank ; that Sum wasfmce reducd to 300 Florins, and no Sum under thatcan be entered in the Bank-Books by any Perfon,2 unlefs. l6o HaYES^^ Negociators Magazine unlefs it be for the Eajl and Wejt-India Companies:But when fuch Privilege is allowed to private Per-fons, they muft pay 6 Stivers for every fuch Entry. So that in this Manner, the Bank of Amfterdamis become the univerfal Depofitory of the Riches ofall its Inhabitants, and of a great many Foreigners,its Credit being fo good, that no Body pretends tocall it in queftion. And indeed it is plain, that itcannot well fUl, fo long as the Government of theCountry fubfifts, for the City of Amfterdam is its Se-curity, Nor would there be any Reaf
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