viii The Author's Preface; 



kingdom of Bohemia *. Further, that the weekly 

 tenths from Friberg alone amounted in the four- 

 teenth century, to 5000 rix-dollars, making in 

 all a yearly income of 260,000 rix-dollars. The 

 profits, therefore, to the adventurers, which a- 

 mount to nine times as much, mull have been 

 30 tons of goldf. And though ores may rife and 

 fall in value, they notwithflanding yield a con- 

 fiderable income ftill. 



From 1529, to 1630, a period of one hun- 

 dred years, when the fchedules were firft pub- 

 limed, the profits to the adventurers from 

 Friberg alone, amounted to thirty feven tons 

 of gold. At Schneeberg, from 1470 to 1510^ 

 a period of forty years, to forty tons of gold. At 

 Anneberg, from 1496 to 1626, a term of one 

 hundred and thirty years, to thirty feven tons of 

 gold. At Marienberg, from 1520 to 1627, a 

 fpace of one hundred and fix years, to twenty 

 four tons of gold. So that within the compafs of 

 one hundred years, taking one place with ano- 

 ther, the total amount will come to feveral mil- 

 lions : and then it would be no difficult matter 

 to make a calculus of the tenths^ mintage, csY. 

 falling to the fhare of the prince. 



From an old written abftradt it appears, that 

 from 1590 to 1626, a fpace of thirty fix years, 



the 



* MeifnifcheBerg-chronicke, p. 3^. 

 •j f rcybcr^fchechronicke, p. 431. 



