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1 86 An Expedient for Paying Ike Sea and and their endeavours of conquering or encroaching upon their neighbour's dominions, as they have done at Porto Rico, St. Do- mingo, and other of their Weft Indian dominions, where they have made fmall pieces of leather to be current inftead of money, whilft they tranfported their vaft quantities of gold and Silver into Eu- rope. Lewis Robert's Map of Commerce, Ch. V. The provident and thriftie Dutch, who live in a marm or boggie countrie where mines of gold and filver did not inhabit, have had long agoe, and at this day, their ftiver money made of brafs, whereof to make an Englim milling, befides their orkins, dots, and blanks, made of brafs or copper, which did in part fatis'fie the nu- merous neceffary and frriall occafions of their induftrious and trad- ing people. The Swedes have their angflcr, or farthing, the Genoefe their diner, the Turks, who poffefs too much of the riches of gold and Silver of the eaft, have their dinar or farthing. The Swedes, though now fall of German fpoils and plunder, do find it rcafon of ftate to .continue their copper money. The Scots their penny, whereof 1 2 make but our Englim penny ; and in England, many years in the reigns of king James and king Charles the martyr, have taught us the happy ufage of brafs farthings, unhappily difufed by the late rebellious Hate founders, and now fo wanted, and yet known to be for public ufe, as the chandlers and vintners have caufed them to be made and pafs for current money under their names and marks, upon no greater aiTurance than that they will, if they hap- pen to come again into their hands, allow as much for them, fo that the neighbourhood will not refufe them. Some people of Africa have of fhells made their money, and iron, or balls of glafs. The people of Cathay of fait, and little pieces of paper. Thofe of Pegu of copper and lead. And in other places of the Indies pepper and cocoa nuts have palled for money by autho- rity