THE MONEY OF ORMUZ a.d. 



1584. 

 which is litle and round, and is worth 24 sadines, 

 which maketh 30 medines of Aleppo. 



The Venetian mony is worth in Ormuz larines 88 

 per 100 meticals, & the roials are worth larines 86 

 lesse one sadine, which is every thousand meticals, 382 

 asures : but those that will not sel them, use to melt 

 them, and make them so many larines in the king of 

 Ormuz his mint, whereby they cleare 2 per 100, and 

 somewhat more : and this they doe because neither 

 Venetian money nor roials run as currant in Ormuz, 

 per advise. 



The measure of Ormuz is of 2 sorts, the one called 

 codo which increaseth upon the measure of Aleppo 3 

 per 100, for bringing 100 pikes of any measurable 

 wares from Aleppo to Ormuz, it is found in Ormuz to 

 be 103 codes. Also these measures of Ormuz increase 

 upon those of Balsara and Babylon 25 and two third 

 parts per 100: for bringing 100 pikes of any measurable 

 wares from Balsara or Babylon, there is found in Ormuz 

 125 codes and two third parts. 



The other measure is called a vare, which was sent 

 from the king of Portugall to the India, by which they 

 sell things of small value, which measure is of 5 palmes 

 or spans, and is one code and two third parts, so that 

 buying 100 codes of any measurable wares, and return- 

 ing to measure it by the sayd vare, there are found but 

 60 vares, contrarywise 100 vares make 166 codes and 

 two third parts. 



Note that al such ships as lade horses in Ormuz for 

 Goa or any other place of India, lading 10 horses or 

 upwards, in what places soever the said horses be taken 

 a shore in the India, the marchandize which is to be 

 discharged out of that ship wherein the said horses 

 come, are bound to pay no custome at all, but if they 

 lade one horse lesse then ten, then the goods are bound 

 to pay the whole custome. And this law was made by 

 Don Emanuel king of Portugall, but it is to be dili- 

 gently foreseene, whither all those horses laden be bound 



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