S] THE CURRENT PRICES'AT VERA CRUZ, 229
And this Deponent saitb Jthat the best trade In those places Is of Negroes: the trade whereof he hath used, and hath sold Negroes at the said places; and seen other merchants likewise sell their Negroes there, divers times.
Which Negroes, being carried into the inner and farther parts of the Mainland of Peras be commonly sold there for 800 and goo pesos of 14 Rials. [The inland price of a Negro therefore varied from £280 to £^i^=about £2,24.0 to £2,480].
The Peso being worth at la Vera Cni£ 13 Rials of Plate of the Spanish coin, being 65, 8d. sterling: and in other places of Mexico, Peru, and Mainland the said Peso Is worth 14 Rials, which is 7$. sterling.
A Fardel of Linen Cloth called Ordwavdas or Preselias, is worth and commonly sold at la Vera Cruz for 250 pesos of 13 Rials [@ 6s. 8d.=about £83] which is after the rate of 3,250 Rials the Fardel,
And the Linen Cloth called Roanes is sold there after the rate of 226 pesos the Fardel, which is 2,940 Rials. For this Deponent hath sold, and seen other merchants sell, divers times, Linen Cloth after that rate at la Vera Cru£ and Mexico.
That a Ib. of Magaritas [? Periwinkles; the word also means Pearls] is worth at la Vera Cruz, 18 and £0 Rials [=95. and IDS. = £3 I2s. and £4. now] for he hath sold, and seen other merchants so sell, there, commonly after that rate. Notwithstanding he saith that he hath sold a Ib. of Margaritas at la Vera Cruz for 30 Rials and sometime 3 pesos (39 Rials) [=155. and 195. 6d*=£6 and £7 i6s. now].
That pewter vessel and kerseys called " Hampshire '* and ** Northerns " be commonly worth and sold at la Vera Cruz for the several prices following,
i Ib. (being 16 ounces) of Pewter at 4, and sometimes 5 Rials [2S. and 2s. 6dL=i6s. and £i now]*
The good " Hampshire Kersey," containing commonly 18 Vares [The Vare was 33! English inches. KELLY, idem,], which Is about 17 English yards; at 36 ducats [which is after 2 ducats9 or 22 Rials the Vare]*