Preparatory notes and calculations concerning Dutch trade and English customs on it for MINT00720 (Mint 19/3/498-9)
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An Accompt of the costs & charges of sending Tynn by the English Merchants or Pewterers to their correspondents in Holland.
The first cost, Customes, Coquets boat-hire searchers fees & wharfage come to 3£ 19s 6d per cwt Averdupois (as in the other Account ) that is to 41 Gilders 12 styvers per 100 Dutch weight | } | 41.G 12st |
Customs, Additional Duty & Valuation at Amsterdam, about | 1. 5 | |
Cocquets & Custome-house fees, about | 0. 0 | |
Boat-hire, Lighterage, Porterage & housing at Amsterdam 4 styvers per block or about 1 st per 100wt | } | 0. 1 |
Freight 6, 8, 10, or 12 styvers per block & sometimes nothing. At a medium (including Averidge) 9 or 10 styvers per block or 3 per 100 wt | } | 0. 3 |
Factorage 6d or 6 st | 0. 6 | |
Commission | 0. 9 | |
43. 18 | ||
Hazzards or losses at sea & in returns of money are uncertain. The Merchants do not insure. In times of peace the hazzards are less. If this Article be recconed at about 1 per cent or 9 stivers pr 100 wt the whole Account will amount unto about 44G. 7st |
Source
MINT 19/3/571, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKAfter 18 August 1705, c. 174 words.