576 A. D.I 675^ 



cles in all, to which, after Sir John Finch's arrival, were added the fol' 

 lowing explanations, viz. 



I) What duty the Englifli fliips paid for their merchandize coming 

 to Scanderoon, and afterwards to Aleppo. 



II) For all merchandize which the Englifli merchants fhall import or 

 export, they fhall pay only 3 per cent ; and woollen cloths from Lon-^ 

 don fliall pay 144. alpers per piece, whether fine or coarfe, of the ma- 

 nufadure of England; (80 afpers being worth a Spanifli piece of eight). 

 But the woollen cloths of Holland, &c. which are not of the manufac- 

 ture of England, ftiall hereafter pay the duties as formerly have been 

 cuftomary, &c. 



Ill, IV, V, VI, and VII, contain only certain regulations concern- 

 ing caufes to be tried relating to the Englifh, and the anchorage duty 

 on our fhips arriving at Conflimtinople, Scanderoon, Smyrna, Cyprus, 

 &.C. and other matters relating to duties and debts.. 



VIII) Two fhip loads of figs and currants are annually allowed to be. 

 exported from Smyi-na, Salonichi, &c. for the ufe of the king of Great 

 Britain's kitchen, provided, there be no fcarcity of thofe fruits, paying 

 only 3 per cent cufhom for the faine. And the ninth article is only a 

 very ambiguous and vague ftipulation concerning the duty on all filk 

 which the Englifh buy at Smyrna. [General colleBion of treaties, V. iii, 

 p. 282.] 



The anonymous author of a fpirited treatife, entitled Britannia lan- 

 guens, (8vo, 1680) written chiefly with a view to evince that the com- 

 merce of England had been for fome years in a confumptive way *, 

 exhibits an account of all the gold and lilver coined in England from 

 the ifl of Odober 1599 to November in this year 1675, being 76. 

 years, which he has divided into four periods ; fhewing how our coin- 

 age increafed in the three firfh periods, proportionably to the increafe 

 of our trade and navigation, and how much the coinage had decreafed 

 iir the fourth period, taken, he fays, from a printed account of the faid 

 year 1675, viz. 



I ft period, 19^ years f"rom Odober 1599 to March 1619, coined in 

 gold and lilver, - - - L4,779,3i4 13 4 



2d period, 19 years from March 1619 to March 

 1638, _____ 6,900,042 II I 



3d period, 19 years from March 1638 to May 1657, 7,733,521 13 4^ 



4th period, 1 8-^ years from May 1657 to Novem- 

 ber 1675, - - - 2,238,997 16 o\ 



(About one million of which laft fum was harp 

 and crofs money, and broad gold, &c. recoined.) 



In 76 years, total coined in England is - L2i,65i,876 13 10 



* Doftor D'Avenant, and feveral otlier writers, fix on that very year 1680, as the time when Eng. 

 lund was in the zenith of commercial profperity. A. 



