Preparatory notes and calculations concerning Dutch trade and English customs on it for MINT00720 (Mint 19/3/498-9)
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An Account of the costs & charges of procuring Tynn from London & housing it at Amsterdam
Paid in London
| , First cost pr cwt Averdupois | 3. 16. 00 |
| Customes | 3. 16. 00 |
| Cocquets, boat-hire, searchers fees, Wharfage &c about | 0. 0. 6 |
| Commission to Pewterers or English Merchants imployed by forreigners | 0. 0. 9 |
| Hazzards or losses at sea are uncertain. The merchants do not insure. In times of peace the hazzards are less. They may be valued at | 0. 0. 9 |
| 4. 1. 0 |
Paid in Holland
| Customes about 12styvers pr 100 Dutch weight One third Additional Duty about 4st. Valuation 2 pr Cent. These Duties are apt to meet with some favour in valuing the goods below the first cost. Her Majesty paid for the Tynn in Holland Customes 10st per 100wt Additional Duty 3 st, Valuation 12 st. In all | } | 1.Gild. 5Stiv. |
| Cocquets & Custome house fees there about 25 or 30 st. per parcel | 0. 0 | |
| Freight 6, 8, 10 or 12 styvers per block & sometimes nothing Averidge 3 styvers per Gilder. Freight & Averidge together at a medium about 10 styvers per block or 3 st per 100wt | } | 0. 3 |
| Prompt payment 1Add per cent | 0. 9 | |
| Interest for forbearing two months | 0. 9 | |
| 2 7 | ||
Which reduced into English money & weight (recconing 10 Gilders 12 stivers to 20s 110 pounds Averdupois to the Dutch 100 weight) comes to 4.s6d. And this summ added to 4£. 1.s 00d, makes the whole charge 4£. 5s. 6d per cwt English, or 4£ 4s 6d per 100 Dutch weight, or 44 Gilders 15 stivers per 100 Dutch weight.
Source
MINT 19/3/572, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKAfter 18 August 1705, c. 267 words.