a.d. THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



1584. 



Moresco stampe on both sides, and two of these make 

 a danine, which is 2 medines Aleppine. 



The said danine is of silver, having the Turkesco 

 stampe on both sides, & 2 and a halfe of these make 

 a Saie, which is in value as the Saie of Aleppo. 



The said Saie is of the similitude and stampe of 

 Aleppo, being (as appeares) 60 estives. Also one Say 

 and 20 estives make a larine, which is of Aleppo 

 money 6 medines and a halfe. 



The sayd larine is a strange piece of money, not 

 being round as all other currant money in Christianitie, 

 but is a small rod of silver of the greatnesse of the 

 pen of a goose feather, wherewith we use to write, and 

 in length about one eight part thereof, which is 

 wrested, so that the two ends meet at the just halfe 

 part, and in the head thereof is a stampe Turkesco, 

 and these be the best currant money in all the Indias, 

 and 6 of these larines make a duckat, which is 40 

 medines or eight Saies of Aleppo. 



The duckat of gold is woorth there 7 larines, and 

 one danine, which is of Aleppo money 48 medines and 

 a halfe. 



The Venetian money is worth larines 88 per 100 

 meticals, which is 150 drams of Aleppo, ut supra. 



The roials of plate are worth 88 larines by the 100 

 meticals, & albeit among the marchants they sel by the 

 100 meticals, yet in the mint or castle, they sel by the 

 too drams, having there lesse then the worth 5 medines 

 in each hundred drams, and have their paiment in 40 

 dayes made them in Saies or larines. 



The custome of the said places, aswell inward as 

 outward, are alike of all sorts of goods, to say 6 by 

 the 100, and Toafo, Boabo, & scrivan medines 6 by 

 the bale inward & outward, to say, 3 inward, and as 

 much outward : but who so leaveth his goods in the 

 custome house paieth nothing, where otherwise at the 

 taking thereof away, he should pay 3 med. by the bale, 

 and of the said goods there is no other duty to pay, 



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