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you have, & not by rate of every sort as they ought to 

 do, by which meanes a man payeth more then his dutie. 

 At length when the goods be dispatched out of the cus- 

 tome house in this order, the Marchant causeth them 

 to be caried to his house, and may do with them at 

 his pleasure. 



There are in Pegu 8. brokers of the kings, which 

 are called Tareghe, who are bound to sell all the mar- 

 chandize which come to Pegu, at the common or the 

 currant price : then if the marchants wil sell their goods 

 at that price, they sel them away, and the brokers have 

 two in the hundreth of every sort of marchandise, and 

 they are bound to make good the debts of those goods, 

 because they be sold by their hands or meanes, & on 

 their wordes, and oftentimes the marchant knoweth not 

 to whom he giveth his goods, yet he cannot lose any 

 thing thereby, for that the broker is bound in any wise 

 to pay him, and if the marchant sel his goods without 

 the consent of the broker, yet neverthelesse he must 

 pay him two per cento, and be in danger of his money : 

 but this is very seldom scene, because the wife, children, 

 and slaves of the debtor are bound to the creditor, and 

 when his time is expired and paiment not made, the 

 creditor may take the debtor and cary him home to his 

 house, and shut him up in a Magasin, whereby presently 

 he hath his money, and not being able to pay the 

 creditor, he may take the wife, children, and slaves of ^ law e for 

 the debtor, and sel them, for so is the lawe of that king- Banckrupts. 

 dome. The currant money that is in this city, and 

 throughout all this kingdom is called Gansa or Ganza, 

 which is made of Copper and leade : It is not the money Every man 

 of the king, but every man may stamp it that wil, because "^^y ^^^^P^ 

 it hath his just partition or value : but they make many ^^-^ ^^^^-^ 

 of them false, by putting overmuch lead into them, and 

 those will not passe, neither will any take them. With 

 this money Ganza, you may buy golde or silver. Rubies 

 and Muske, and other things. For there is no other 

 money currant amongst them. And Golde, silver and 



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