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... most difficult Terms ufed in Trade . VIII . Precedents of Merchants Writings ; as , Bills of Lading , Invoyces , Bills of Exchange , Letters of Credit , Charter - Parties , & c . With many other Things not Extant before , as by the ...
... most difficult Terms ufed in Trade . VIII . Precedents of Merchants Writings ; as , Bills of Lading , Invoyces , Bills of Exchange , Letters of Credit , Charter - Parties , & c . With many other Things not Extant before , as by the ...
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... know what I have been for many Years , and in many Inftances bound to acknowledge , that I am , Your obliged , and most Humble Servant , E. HATTON ... THE PREFACE TO THE READER . T HE First Impreffion The DEDICATION .
... know what I have been for many Years , and in many Inftances bound to acknowledge , that I am , Your obliged , and most Humble Servant , E. HATTON ... THE PREFACE TO THE READER . T HE First Impreffion The DEDICATION .
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... most abftrufe Rules given for the brief working of Questions in Practice ; and a more eafie and ( in many Cafes ) con- cife Method of finding the Tare of any Commodity : And in Ex- change I added feveral ufeful Tables of Coin and Weight ...
... most abftrufe Rules given for the brief working of Questions in Practice ; and a more eafie and ( in many Cafes ) con- cife Method of finding the Tare of any Commodity : And in Ex- change I added feveral ufeful Tables of Coin and Weight ...
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... most intricate part of his Business at any time , whenever it occurs ; the fecond makes him fuited to , and become his high and honourable Employment ; and the third of an eafie Accefs , gains him Love and Affection , and makes all that ...
... most intricate part of his Business at any time , whenever it occurs ; the fecond makes him fuited to , and become his high and honourable Employment ; and the third of an eafie Accefs , gains him Love and Affection , and makes all that ...
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... most mysterious Parts of Book - keeping . I muft affure , the Reader , that I have proceeded in compofing the following Pages , in the most Familiar , Rational and Copious Me- thod I could think proper in this Treatife , and have ...
... most mysterious Parts of Book - keeping . I muft affure , the Reader , that I have proceeded in compofing the following Pages , in the most Familiar , Rational and Copious Me- thod I could think proper in this Treatife , and have ...
Common terms and phrases
Accompt currant Adminiftrators Affigns aforefaid Aleppo alfo Anno Domini Anſwer Ballance becauſe Bill of Exchange Bufhels Cafe Cafh Caſh Chap Charles Rolling chief Towns coft Coin Commiffion Commodity Creditor Cuſtom Cyphers Debtor Decimal deduct Denomination Ditto divided Dividend Divifion Divifor Drams Ells English Example Executors Factor faid fame Sum Farthings fecond feveral fhall fhew firft Flemish fold fome foregoing Fraction ftands fuch a Place fundry Accounts Gainwell Gallons George Higgs given Number Grofs Grograms Hundred Inches Infurance Intereft laft Ledger lefs London Meaſure Merchant moft Money moſt muft Multiply muſt Norwich Wares Numbers given Ounces paid payable Pence Perfon Pieces Pieces of Eight Pound Sterling Pounds prefent Product Profit and Lofs Proportion Proteft Quarts Quotient Reafon reduce refts Remains Rule Scammony Shillings Ship Sterling Stock Subftraction Summ Table Tare thefe thereof theſe thofe Towns of Trade ufually uſed Value Vulgar Fractions VVares Weight Yards
Popular passages
Page 271 - Be it known that as well in own name as for and in the name and names of all and every other person or persons to whom the same doth, may, or shall appertain, in part or in all...
Page 272 - Ship, &c., or any part thereof ; and in case of any Loss or Misfortune it shall be lawful to the Assured, their Factors, Servants, and Assigns, to sue, labour, and travel for, in, and about the Defence, Safeguard, and Recovery of the said Goods, Merchandises, and Ship, &c. , or any part thereof, without prejudice to this Insurance ; to the charges whereof we, the Assurers, will contribute each one according to the rate and quantity of his sum herein assured.
Page 265 - Vicar, &c. of the faid pari(h and pari(h church, (hall •fhali' and will well and truly pay, or caufe to be paid, unto the faid...
Page 260 - Ship called the whereof is Master for this present Voyage and now riding at Anchor in the and bound for to say being marked and numbered as in the Margin, and are to be delivered in the like good order and well conditioned...
Page 260 - In witness whereof the Master or Purser of the said Ship hath affirmed to three Bills of Lading, all of this Tenor and Date, One of which three Bills being Accomplished, the other two to stand Void.
Page 267 - ... or thing, from the beginning of the world, to the day of the date of thefe prefents.
Page 125 - ... the giving a sum of money in one place for a bill, ordering the payment of it in another place.
Page 272 - And so we the assurers are contented, and do hereby promise and bind ourselves each one for his own part, our heirs, executors, and goods to the assured, their executors, administrators, and assigns for the true performance of the premises...
Page 74 - To reduce a mixed number to an improper fraction, Multiply the whole number by the denominator of the fraction, and to the product add the numerator; under this sum write the denominator.