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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/510, National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey, UK

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  'An Acc^t of y^e cost & charges of sending Tynn to Amsterdam & selling it there by commission.' [MINT 19/3/498-9]

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An Accompt of the cost & charges of sending Tynn to Amsterdam & selling there by Comi|m|ission

	£ d
\Paid in London/ First cost per C Averdupois	3. 16. 00
Customes	0. 3. 00
Cocquets, boat hire, searchers fees, Wharfage &c about	0. 0. 06
Insurance by sea 1 p^r cent	0. 0. 09
	4. 0. 03

Which after the rate of 110 $\frac{3}{4}$ pounds Averdupois to the Dutch weight, & 10 Gilders 12 Stivers to 20^s sterling, comes to 42 Gilders per 100
Dutch weight.		42. 0
Paid in Holland Customes \about/ 12^st p^r C\100^wt/. One third Additionial Duty 4^st \per C 100 W^t/ Valuation 2 per cent. These Duties are apt to meet with some favour in valuing the goods \below the first cost/. Her Ma^ty. paid for the Tenn in Holland \Customes/ 10 st per C 100 ^wt, Customes\Additional Duty/, 3 $\frac{1}{3}$ ^st per 100 Additional Duty &\& Valuation/ 12 $\frac{1}{2}$ st Valution\per 100 In all/	}	1. 5 $\frac{5}{6}$
Cocquets & Custome house fees about 25 or 30 st p^r parcel		0. 0 $\frac{1}{2}$
Freight (as in M^r Drummonds Acc^t) 10 styvers per block Averidge 3 styvers p^r Gilder or 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ styver per block. Boathire & Lighertage for unlading 2 styvers p^r block. Porterage & housing 2 styvers per block. In all 15 $\frac{1}{2}$ styvers per block w^ch is about 5 $\frac{1}{4}$ styvers per 100^wt	}	0. 5 $\frac{1}{4}$
Total charge of buying exporting & housing		43. 11 $\frac{7}{12}$
by the Rule of false Postion let the price in selling be put 45 Gilders per 100 Dutch weight, & the charges of selling will be as follows.
Carriage to the City Weighhouse & weighing for sale 1 $\frac{1}{2}$ A 0.		0. 1 $\frac{1}{2}$
per 100 City Duties half er cent for weighing $\frac{1}{2}$ p^r cent. In former 0 Accounts I find it about	}	0. 4 $\frac{1}{4}$
Prompt payment 1 p^r cent		0. 9
Insurance of the paym^ts 1 per cent		0. 9
Interest for two months forbearance 1\|&\| per cent\a month/ for\in/ returning the money	}	0. 9\|1\|\|1\|
Commission		0. 9
Brokerage		0. 3
Warehouse room about		0. 2
		45. 18 $\frac{7}{12}$ /46. 0 $\frac{1}{12}$ .\

By this Acc^t the Merchant can have Tyn housed at Amsterdam for 43.^G 11 $\frac{1}{2}$ st. And this puts the price at a selling price at about 43 $\frac{1}{2}$ Gilders in ready money. Add

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Commission for buying for people abroad 1 p^r cent	0. 9
Freight 6 8 or 10 styvers per block & sometimes nothing, \|at a medium 1\|8\|^st including Averidge\|	0. 9
Factoring	0. 6
Got or lost by the course of Exchange	- -