THE RUSSIAN COINS ad. 



1554. 



There is another weight needfull to be knowen, which The weight of 

 is the weight of Wardhouse, for so much as they weigh Wardhouse. 

 all their drie fish by weight, which weight is the 

 Beasemar, as they of Russia doe use, notwithstanding 

 there is another sorte in it : the names of those weights 

 are these : the marke pound, the great pound, the weie, 

 and the shippond. The marke pound is to be under- 

 stood as our pound, and their great pound is 24 of 

 their marke pound : the weie is 3 great pound, and 8 

 weie is a shippound. 



Now concerning their measures. As they have two The Russia 

 sortes of weights, so they have also two sortes of mea- Measures. 

 sures : wherewith they measure cloth both linnen and 

 wollen : they cal the one an Areshine, and the other a 

 Locut : the Areshine I take to bee as much as the 

 Flanders ell, and their Locut halfe an English yard : 

 with their Areshine they may mete all such sorts of 

 clothes as come into the land, and with the Locut all 

 such cloth both linnen and wollen, as they make them- 

 selves. And whereas we use to give yard and inch, 

 or yard and handfull, they do give nothing but bare 

 measure. 



They have also a measure wherewith they doe mete [I. 257.] 

 their corne, which they cal a Setforth, and the halfe of 

 that an Osmine : this Setforth I take to bee three bushels 

 of London measure. And as for their drinke measure, 

 they call it a Spanne, which is much like a bucket, and 

 of that I never saw any true rate, but that some was 

 greater then other some. And as for the measures of The measure 

 Wardhouse wherewith they mete their cloth, there is no ^J^"^™*! 

 difference between that and the measure of Danske, measul - e f 

 which is halfe an English ell. Danske. 



Concerning the tolles & customs of Russia, it was 

 reported to me in Moscovia, that the Turkes and The Turkes 

 Armenians pay the tenth penie custome of all the wares . Armc ~ 

 they bring into the Emperors land, and above that they cust0 ^ gt 

 pay for all such goods as they weigh at the Emperours The Emperors 

 beame, two pence of the Rubble, which ye buyer or beame. 



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