THE MONEY OF MALACCA a.d. 



1584. 

 condition or state soever he be, may not depart from 

 Goa to go within the land, without licence of certaine 

 deputies deputed for that office, who (if they be Moores 

 or Gentiles) doe set a seale upon the arme, having 

 thereon the armes of Portugal, to be knowen of the 

 porters of the citie, whether they have the said licence 

 or no. 



COCHIN. 



The weight, measure, and money, currant in Cochin. 



A LI the marchandise which they sell or buy within 

 the sayd citie, they bargaine for it at so many 

 serafines per quintal, which is 128. rotilos of just weight 

 with ye quintall & rotilo of Goa and Ormuz : advertis- 

 ing that there are divers sorts of bars according to the 

 sorts of commodities, and in traffiquing, they reason at 

 so much the bar. Note that there are bars of 3 quintals 

 & 3 quintals and halfe, and 4 quintals. They abate a 

 used tare of all marchandize, according to the sort of 

 goods, and order taken for the same. 



The measure of Goa and Cochin are all one. 



The money of Cochin are all the same sorts which 

 are currant in Goa, but the duckat of gold in value is 

 10 tangas of good money. 



The custome of Cochin as wel inward as outward for 

 all strangers, is eight in the hundred, but those that 

 have bene married foure yeere in the countrey pay but 

 foure in the hundred, per adviso. 



MALACCA. pi. i. 27 6.] 



The weight, measure, and money of Malacca. 



FOr the marchandise bought and sold in the citie 

 they reckon at so much the barre, which barre is 

 of divers sorts, great and small; according to the ancient 

 custome of the said citie, & diversitie of the goods. 

 But for the cloves they bargaine at so much the barre, 

 which barre is 3 quintals, 2 roues and 10 rotilos. As I 

 have abovesaid, all kind of drugs have their sorts of 



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