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Of the value of Bullion in Scots Money, according to the ſeveral Deniers and Grains of Fineneſs, and the ordinary denominations of Weights, by which Merchants and others may know what Coyned Money they are to get out, when their Bulzeon doth ariſe above, or fall below the Standart.
The uſe of theſe Tables will beſt appear by Examples; ſuppoſe it were enquired what one is to receive of Coyned Money, when he gives in to the Mint a Stone weight of Silver 8 Deniers fine. In the firſt Table in the Column marked at the top with Stone weight, and over-againſt 8 in the Margent you find 611 l 3 ſs 3 92/100 pen the Sum deſired. So for a Pound weight of Silver 10 Deniers fine, the Merchant is to get out 47 l 14 ſs 11 37/100 pen and ſo of the reſt. And one is to receive for two Ounces weight of Silver 11 Deniers fine, the double value of an Ounce weight of the ſame fineneſs, which is 3 l 5 ſs 7 83/100 pen to wit, 6 l 11 ſs 3 66/100 pen the ſame way ye'l find that for 3 Drop weight of Silver 12 Deniers fine, one is to receive o l 13 ſs 5 13/100 pen the triple of o l 4 ſs 5 71/100 pen which is the value of one Drop weight of Silver 12 De
But if the Bulzeon given in to the Mint be of a fineneſs conſiſting of Deniers & Grains; For Example, a Stone weight of Silver 9 Deniers 12 Grains fine; ſeek in the firſt Table the value of a Stone weight of Silver 9 Deniers fine, which is found to be 687 l 11 ſs 2 91/100 pen and to it add the value of a Stone weight of Silver 12 Grains fine found in the ſecond Table (the ſame way as before in the firſt) to wit 38 l 3 ſs 11 49/100 pen the Sum 725 l 15 ſs 2 40/100 pen is the ſought value of a Stone weight of Silver 9 De
The value of the different Weights of Bulzeon of Standart-fineneſs, is here inſerted becauſe of its more frequent uſe, albeit it might have been (as the reſt) eaſily found, by adding together in the reſpective Weights the values of 11 Deniers fine and 2 Grains fine.
The Fractions of Pennies in theſe Tables are all 100 parts, albeit for the moſt part they might have been of a lower denomination; that being all of the ſame deno
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Edinburgh, Printed by the Heir of Andrew Anderſon, Printed to His moſt Sacred Dom 1687