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Suddenly herein, this owner becomes a pettie chapman: I
will serue thee, saith he: hee deliuers him so much ware as shall
amount to fortie shillings, in which he cuts him halfe in halfe for
the price, and four nobles in money, for which the poore wretch
is bound in Darbyes bonds, to deliuer him two hundred waight of Tynne
at the next Coynage, which may then bee worth fiue pound or foure at
the verie least. And as mischiefe still creepes onward, this extreme
dealing of the London Marchant and Countrie chapman, in white Tynne is
imitated (or rather exceeded) by the wealthier sort of Tynners
themselues in the blacke, by laying out their money after thus much
the marke: which trade, though subtill and darke, I will open as
plainely as I can.
A foote of blacke Tynne (as is before said) containeth in measure two
gallons; the waight vncertainely followeth the goodnesse. A foote of
good Moore-tyn, (which is counted the best sort) will way about
foure-score pound. Of the Myne Tynne (which is meaner) fiftie two
pound: of the worst fiftie pound.


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