THE MONEY OF GOA ad. 



1584. 

 change them into basaruchies, he may have 5 tangas, 

 and 16 basaruchies, which overplus they cal cerafagio, & 

 when they bargain of the pardaw of gold, each pardaw is 

 ment to be 6 tangas good mony, but in marchandize they 

 use not to demaund pardawes of gold in Goa, except it 

 be for jewels and horses, for all the rest they take of 

 seraphins of silver, per adviso. 



The roials of plate, I say, the roial of 8 are worth per 

 custome & commandement of the king of Portugall 400 

 reies, and every rey is one basaruchie & one fourth part, 

 which maketh tangas 6, and 53 basaruchies as their just [II. i. 275.] 

 value, but for that the said roials are excellent silver and 

 currant in divers places of the India, and chiefly in 

 Malacca, when the ships are to depart at their due times 

 (called Monsons) every one to have the said roials pay 

 more then they are worth, & the overplus, as is above- 

 said they call serafagio. And first they give ye just value 

 of the 100 roials of 8, and 5 tangas 50 basaruchies a 

 piece, which done, they give seraphins 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 

 12, 15, untill 22 by the 100, according as they are in 

 request. 



The duckat of gold is worth 9 tangas and a halfe good 

 money, and yet not stable in price, for that when the 

 ships depart from Goa to Cochin, they pay them at 

 9 tangas and 3 fourth partes, and 10 tangas, and that is 

 the most that they are woorth. 



The larines are woorth by just value basaruchies 93 

 and 3 fourth parts, and 4 larines make a seraphine of 

 silver, which is 5 tangas of good money, and these also 

 have serafagion of 6, 7, 8, 10, untill 16, by the 100, for 

 when the ships depart for the North, to say, for Chaul, 

 Diu, Cambaia, or Bassaim, all cary of the same, because 

 it is money more currant then any other. 



There is also a sort of seraphins of gold of the stampe 

 of Ormuz, whereof there are but fewe in Goa, but being 

 there, they are woorth five larines and somewhat more, 

 according as they are in request. 



There is also another litle sort of mony, round, having 



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