a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1554. 



in England, halfpenie, penie, shilling and pound, so say 



they Poledenga, Denga, Altine and Rubble : There 

 goeth two Poledengas to a Denga, six Dengaes to an 

 Altine, and 23 Altines, and two Dengaes to a Rubble. 

 The weights Concerning the weights of Russia they are these : 

 tn Russia. There are two sorts of pounds in use amongst them, 

 the one great, ye other small : the great pound is just 

 two small pounds : they call the great weight by the 

 name of Beasemar, and the smal they call the Skalla 

 weight : with this smal weight they weigh their silver 

 coines, of the which the Emperor hath commanded to 

 put to every small pound three Rubbles of silver, and 

 with the same weight they weigh all Grocerie wares, 

 and almost al other wares which come into the land, 

 except those which they weigh by the Pode, as hops, 

 salt, iron, lead, tinne & batrie with divers others, not- 

 withstanding they use to weigh batrie more often by 

 the small weight then by the great. 



Whensoever you find the prices of your wares rated 

 by the Pode, consider that to be the great weight, and 

 the pound to be the small. Also they divide the small 

 pound into 48 parts, and they call the eight and fortieth 

 part a Slotnike, by the which Slotnike the retailers sell 

 their wares out of their shops, as Goldsmiths, Grocers, 

 Silkesellers and such other like as we doe use to retaile 

 by the ounce : and as for their great weight which they 

 cal the Beasemar, they sel by pode, or shippond. The 

 pode doth containe of the great weight, 40 pounds, and 

 of the smal 80: there goe 10. podes to a shippond. 



Yet you must consider that their great weight is not 

 full with ours : for I take not their great pound to be 

 full 13 ounces, but above 12 I thinke it be. But for 

 your just proofe, weigh 6 Rubbles of Russia money 

 with our pound weight, and then shal you see what it 

 lacketh : for 6 Rubbles of Russia is by the Emperors 

 standerd, the great pound : so that I thinke it the next 

 way to know the just waight, as well of the great pound 



as of the small. 



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