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THE ENGLISH VOYAGES 



The money and measures of Babylon, Balsara, and 

 the Indies, with the customes, &x. written 

 from Aleppo in Syria, An. 1584. by M. Will. 

 Barret. 



BABYLON : 



The weight, measure, and money currant there, and 

 the customes of merchandize. 



Mana of Babylon is of Aleppo 1 roue 

 5 ounces and a halfe : and 68 manas and 

 three seventh parts, make a quintall of 

 Aleppo, which is 494 li. 8 ounces of 

 London: and 100 manas is a quintall 

 of Babylon, which maketh in Aleppo 146 

 roues, and of London 722 li. and so 

 much is the sayd quintall : but the marchants accord is 

 by so much the mana, and in the sayd place they bate 

 the tare in all sorts of commodities, according to the 

 order of Aleppo touching the tare. 



The measure of Babylon is greater then that of Aleppo 

 21 in ye 100. For bringing 100 pikes of any measurable 

 ware from Aleppo thither, there is found but 82 pikes 

 in Babylon, so that the 100 pikes of Babylon is of Aleppo 

 121 pikes, very litle lesse. 



The currant mony of Babylon are Saies, which Say is 

 5 medines, as in Aleppo, and 40 medines being 8 Saies 

 make a duckat currant, and 47 medines passe in value 

 as the duckat of gold of Venice, and the dollars of the 

 best sort are worth 33 medines. The roials of plate are 

 sold by the 100 drams at prise, according as they be in 

 request: but amongst the marchants they bargaine by 

 the 100 metrals, which are 150 drams of Aleppo, which 

 150 drams are 135 single roials of plate: but in the mint 

 or castle, they take them by the 100 drams, which is 90 

 roials of plate, and those of the mint give 5 medines 

 lesse in each 100 drams then they are woorth to be sold 



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