Preparatory notes and calculations concerning Dutch trade and English customs on it for MINT00720 (Mint 19/3/498-9)

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Computation of What a Dutch Merchant may have Tin housed for in Holland f{illeg}rom the Tower

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   First cost pr C wt3. 16. 00
   Customes in England0.  3. 00
   Cocquets boat hire serchers fees wharfage &c in shipping of.0.  0.  6
   Hazzards at sea 1 per cent.0.  .  912
   Freight (as in Mr Drummond Acct 10st pr block}1512st per block       514
   Averidge 3 styvers per Gilder, or 112 st pr GilderBlock
   Post money ✜
   Boat hire & lig loyterage for undlading 2 st per block
   Porterage & housing 2 st per block
   Customes 12st pr C      12
   Additional Duty 4st pr C       4
   Valuation & premium 2 per cent, the valuation {illeg}being upon ye first cost or thereabouts, {illeg} 1s 6d}      17
   Cocquets & Custome house fees about {illeg}25 or 30 styvers pr parcel
   Brokerage 3 styvers pr C weight.       3
   Carriage to the city weigh house & weighing for sale 112 styver pr C.
   City Dues 12 per cent - or 11st per C Dutch      11
   Commission 1 pr cent of the price 45 G}1.G 7st.    1.  7
   Pro ptmpt payment 1 pr cent
   Insuring payments 1 pr cent
    4.  034.



Four hundred Tunns of Tynn (the first parcel sent to Mr Drummond) produced neat 33412 Gilders wch at 10 Gilders 10 stivers pr