ad. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



[II. i. 273.] ORMUZ : 



The weight, measure, and money currant in the 

 kingdom of Ormuz : 



SPices and drugs they weigh by the bar, and of every 

 sort of goods the weight is different. To say, of 

 some drugs 3 quintals, and 3 erubi or roues, and other 

 some 4 quintals 25 rotiloes, and yet both is called a 

 barre, which barre, as well great as litle, is 20 frasoli, 

 and every frasoli is 10 manas, and every mana 23 

 chiansi, and every chianso 10 meticals and a halfe. Note 

 that every quintall maketh 4 erubi or roues, and every 

 What a rot'rio roue 32 rotiloes, & every rotilo 16 ounces, and every 

 is ' ounce 7 meticals, so that the quintall commeth to be 



128 rotiloes, which is Aleppine 26 rotiloes and one 

 third part, which is 132 li. english weight. And con- 

 trarywise ye quintal of Aleppo (which is 494 rotiloes 

 8 ounces english) maketh 477 rotiloes and a halfe of 

 Ormuz, which is 3 quintals 2 roues, 29 rotiloes and a 

 halfe. 



Note that there are bars of divers weights, ut supra, 

 of which they bargaine simply, according to the sort of 

 commoditie, but if they bargaine of the great barre, the 

 same is 7 quintals and 24 rotiloes, which is 958 li. 9 

 ounces of London weight, and of Aleppo 193 rotiloes 

 and a halfe. 



Touching the money of Ormuz, they bargaine in 

 marchandize at so many leches by the barre, which lech 

 is 100 Asaries, and maketh larines 100 & a halfe, 

 which maketh pardaos 38, & larines one halfe, at larines 

 5 by the pardao. One asarie is sadines 10, and every 

 sadine is 100. danarie. 



The larine is worth 5 sadines and one fourth part, 

 so that the sadine is worth of Aleppo mony 1 medine 

 and 1 fourth part, & the larine as in Balsara worth of 

 Aleppo mony 6 medines & a half. 



The pardao is 5 larines of Balsara. 



There is also stamped in Ormuz a seraphine of gold, 



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