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Author: N. H.
Title: The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion: instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.
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Print source: The compleat tradesman, or, The exact dealers daily companion: instructing him throughly in all things absolutely necessary to be known by all those who would thrive in the world and in the whole art and mystery of trade and traffick : and will be of constant use for all [brace] merchants, whole-sale men, shopkeepers, retailers, young tradesmen, countrey-chapmen, industrious yeomen, traders in petty villages, and all farmers and others that go to countrey fairs and markets, and for all men whatsoever that be of any trade, or have any considerable dealings in the world / composed by N.H., merchant in the city of London.
N. H.
London: Printed for John Dunton ..., 1684.
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TO THE MERCHANTS Wholesale-men, Shop-keepers, and Handycrafts-men of the CITY of LONDON, AND Elsewhere throughout the Kingdom OF ENGLAND.
THE Compleat Tradesman, &c.
CHAP. I. Of Industry, and Trade in General.
CHAP. II. Directions for the well managing a Trade.
CHAP. III. Directions to young Shopkeepers, and others Tradesmen, about their setting up in the World when they come out of their Apprentiships.
CHAP. IV. The Rules to be observed by all Tradesmen, in the fair and honest Buying and Selling of Commodities.
CHAP. V. The Compleat House-keeper, or Directions to all Trades∣men, for the well and cheap ordering their Domestick Affairs; that they may the better thrive in their Callings.
CHAP. VI. Of the Trude of LONDON.
CHAP. VII. Of the Corporations of London.
CHAP. VIII. The Oath of a Freeman of London.
CHAP. IX. The Particular Advantages of London, with Respect to Trade.
CHAP. X. Of the Foreign Trade of London.
CHAP. XI. Of the Trade of London into the Countrey.
CHAP. XII. Of all Trades being in Companies.
CHAP. XIII. Of Tradesmen breaking, and paying so little in the Pound of their true Debts.
CHAP. XIV. Of the Shop-keeping Trades in this Kingdom.
CHAP. XV. Of petty Shop-keepers living in Countrey Villages.
CHAP. XVI. Of Pedlars, and petty Chapmen.
CHAP. XVII. A Table of Accounts ready cast up, for the Buy∣ing or Selling of any Com∣modity; either by Num∣ber, Weight, or Measure, &c, Resolving the most u∣sual Questions of the Gol∣den Rule, or Rule of Three by Inspection (or by Ad∣dition) only: Of abso∣lute necessity for all man∣ner of Merchants and whole Sale Traders what∣soever.
CHAP. XVIII.
The Ʋse of this Table.
CHAP. XIX. Of the LAWS of the MARKET. Stow. p. 664.
CHAP. XX. Of the Coal-Market.
CHAP. XXI. Of the Corn-Market.
CHAP. XXII. Of the Fish-Market.
CHAP. XXIII. Of the Merchants of LONDON.
CHAP. XXIV. Excellent Directions to all Merchants, how to keep their Books of Accounts, after the most Accurate manner.
CHAP. XXV. Directions to all Merchants, and other Dea∣lers, giving them light into the method for entring of Goods Inwards or Outwards at the Custom-house; how to get Bills of Lading signed, (with the Copy of a Bill of Lading) (with the Copy of a Policy of Assurance) Commissions, and Dis∣count.
Of Assurance.
Of Factors and Commissions.
Of Discount.
CHAP. XXVI. Of Customs, Subsidies, and Impositions, paid upon Commodities: This may be of dayly use for Merchants.
CHAP. XXVII. An Exact and True Table of the Fees of the Chief or Head-Searcher, and of his Majesties five Ʋnder-Sear∣chers in the Port of London; Established by the Commons in Parliament, Anno 14 Car. 2. Collected for the benefit of all Persons as well Mer∣chants, as others, Trading in the Port of London.
The lawful Fees due to His Majesties five Ʋnder-Sear∣chers that attend at London.
CHAP. XXVIII. Of the Commodities of all Countries, where∣by Commerce is maintained, a thing ne∣cessary to be known by all Merchants, &c.
part
The Commodities of the Kingdom of Ireland, are
The Commodities of the Kingdom of France, are
The Commodities of Spain and Portugal, are
The Commodities of Italy, and certain Islands.
The Commodities of Germany, and Places adjoyning,
The Commodities of Eastland, and thereabouts.
The Commodities of Denmark, Norway, and Sweden
The Commodities of Russia.
The Commodities of Barbary.
The Commodities of the Low-Countries.
The Commodities of the West-Indies.
CHAP. XXIX. Of Docks.
CHAP. XXX. Of Money and Gold.
Of Hebrew Money.
Of English Gold, and Money.
The Standard for Starling. Money in England.
CHAP. XXXI. Foreign Coin reduced to English Mony.
CHAP. XXXII. For the better instructing of Young Traders, I have here added an Account of Weights, Measures, and Numbers.
How to measure Wood; necessary for Country-men.
I How much Plank makes a Load.
CHAP. XXXIII. Something Ʋseful to know about Tale of Goods.
CHAP. XXXIV.
CHAP. XXXV.The Principal CITIES and Market-Towns in England and Wales, with the Distance of one CITY and Market-Town from another.
The Table of ROADS Described.
CHAP. XXXVI. An Alphabetical Account of all the Carri∣ers and Waggoners, and Stage-Coaches that come to London, Westminster, and Southwark, from all parts of Eng∣land and Wales; with the respective Days of their Going out.
CHAP. XVXVII. ARTS GLORY; OR, The Best and Easiest Arithme∣tick yet extant, Epitomized; comprehending so much of Practical Arithmetick as is of absolute necessity for all those that are engaged in a Trade.
Of Numeration.
Addition.
Addition of Money.
Substraction.
Substraction of Money,
Multiplication.
Division.
CHAP. XXXVIII. Shewing how the Merchant should mark his Goods that go beyond Sea; together with a Discourse concerning Freight; and the great Ʋsefulness of a Publick Notary.
CHAP. XXXIX. Giving every honest Merchant or Dealer an Account of the Method he should take (according to Law) to get in what is justly owing to him, either by shuffling Tradesmen in the City, or dishonest Cor∣respondents in the Countrey.
CHAP. XL. Directions to Merchants and other Dealers how to discover all Counterfeit Coyn, and bad Money, of great use in the receiving of great sums of Money; Together with the valuation of Foreign and English Gold and Silver.
CHAP. XLI. The valuation of Foreign and English Gold, is as follows, viz.
CHAP. XLIII. A Compleat Tide-Table, shewing the Time of High-Water at London, Gravesend, the Downs, Malden, Rochester, Quinborough, Portsmouth, and Isle of Wight, with Hours and Minutes,
The TERMS and their Returns
CHAP. XLV. A Perpetual Almanack of daily Ʋse to all Traders.
CHAP. XLVI. Of the Post-Office.
CHAP. XLVII. The several Rates that now are, and have been taken for the Carriage of Letter, Pacquets and Parcels, to or from any of His Majesties Dominions, to or from any other Parts or Places beyond the Seas, are as followeth, that is to say,
CHAP. XLVIII. The Rates and Orders of Coach-men.
CHAP. XLXI. The Rates for Car-men.
CHAP. L. Orders for Car-Men.
CHAP. LI. The Rates or Fares of Water-men.
Rates for Carrying Goods in the Tilt Boat between Gravesend and London.
CHAP. LII. A TABLE of KINGS.
CHAP. XLIII. Next follows the Names of the principal Fairs in England, &c. Together with the Month, Day, and Place where they be kept, more exactly than heretofore, for the use of all Citizens, and others that go to Fairs.
An Alphabetical Table of the whole Book.
ADVERTISEMENT. BOOKS lately Printed for J. Dunton, VIZ.