Epstein, Mordecai: The English Levant Company: its foundation and its history to 1640 (London: George Routledge & Sons Ltd, 1908)

THE LEVANT COMPANY 237

3. Allum, per ton, 5 shills.
4. Brimstone, per cent., 2 pence.
5. Caviare, per ton, 8 pence.
6. Calves’ skins, per dozen, 2 pence.
7. Copper as,19 per cent., 1 penny.
8. Currants, per cent., 4 pence.
9. Comenseeds,20 per cent., 3 pence.
10. Ebony, per cent., 6 pence.
11. Flax, per ton, 5 shills.
12. Gunpowder, per barrel, 8 pence.
13. Goatskins, per dozen, 2 pence.
14. Herring, per barrel, 1 penny.
15. Hides muscovia,21 per cent., 3 shill. 4
pence.
16. Hides, india, per cent., 6 shill. 8 pence.
17. Lanthorne horns, per-,22 2 shill.
18. Muscadelles,23 per Butt, 2 shill.
19. Mohaires, per bale of 40 pair, 5 shill.
20. Oil, per ton of 252 gallons, 6 shill. 8
pence.
21. Silk, per bale, 6 shill. 8 pence.
19 Copper as = vitriol.
20 Comenseeds = ? Cummin seed.
21 = ? Russian hides.
22 Cannot make out this word. It occurs again at
sheepskins.
23 Muscadelles = a kind of sweet wine.