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 from the Tower
<574r>First cost pr cwt wt | 3. 16. 00 | ||
Customes in England | 0. 3. 00 | ||
Cocquets boat hire serchers fees wharfage &c in shipping of. | 0. 0. 6 | ||
Hazzards at sea 1 per cent. | 0. . 9 | ||
Freight (as in Mr Drummond Account 10st pr block | } | 15st per block | 5 |
Averidge 3 styvers per Gilder, or 1 st pr Block | |||
Post money ✜ | |||
Boat hire & loyterage for unlading 2 st per block | |||
Porterage & housing 2 st per block | |||
Customes 12st pr cwt | 12 | ||
Additional Duty 4st pr cwt | 4 | ||
Valuation & premium 2 per cent, the valuation being upon the first cost or thereabouts, | } | 17 | |
Cocquets & Custome house fees about 25 or 30 styvers pr parcel | |||
Brokerage 3 styvers pr cwt weight. | 3 | ||
Carriage to the city weigh house & weighing for sale 1 styver pr cwt. | |||
City Dues per cent - or 11st per cwt Dutch | 11 | ||
Commission 1 pr cent of the price 45 G | } | 1.G 7st. | 1. 7 |
Pro mpt payment 1 pr cent | |||
Insuring payments 1 pr cent | |||
4. 0. |
Four hundred Tunns of Tynn (the first parcel sent to Mr Drummond) produced neat 33412 Gilders which at 10 Gilders 10 stivers
Source
MINT 19/3/573-4, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UKAfter 18 August 1705, c. 199 words.