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Author: Isaac Newton

Source: MINT 19/3/571, 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 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^£ 19^s 6^d per C Averdupois (as in the other Acc^t ,\|)\| that is to 41 Gilders 12 styvers per 100 Dutch weight	}	41.^G 12^st
Customs, Additional Duty & Valuation at Amsterdam, about		1. 5 $\frac{5}{6}$
Cocquets & Custome-house fees, about		0. 0 $\frac{1}{2}$
Boat-hire, Lighterage, Porterage & housing at Amsterdam 4 styvers b\|p\|er block or about 1 $\frac{1}{3}$ st per 100^wt	}	0. 1 $\frac{1}{3}$
Freight 6, 8, 10, or 12 styvers per block & sometimes nothing. At a medium (including Averidge) 9 or 10 styvers per block o3\|r\| 3 $\frac{1}{3}$ per 100 w^t	}	0. 3 $\frac{1}{3}$
Factorage 6^d or 6 s^t		0. 6
Commission		0. 9
	43. 18
Hazzards or losses at sea & in returns of money are uncertain. The{illeg} 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 p^r 100 w^t the whole Account will amount unto about 44^G. 7^st

Professor Rob Iliffe
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