'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎24] (343/1024)

pay yoti in Roupes coin’d fome fifteen or twenty years ago- and upward ^ where*
by you will lofe four in the hundred. For they will have one fourth, or at leall
one eighth yer Cent, allow’d for thofe that were coin’d but two years before: So
that the poor People,that cannot read the year wherein xhz Roufks were coin’d
are fubjedt to be cheated y for they will always abated Pbcha or a half aPeehl
upon a Roupie, or three of four don's upon a Pecha.
As for counterfeit Silver, there is very little amongH them. Ifyqu receive one
falfe Roiipte in a Bagg from any particular Perfon,* ’tis better to cut it to pieces,
and lofe it, than to fpeak of it *, for if it fhould come to be known, there might
be danger in it. For-you are commanded by the Kings Law to return the Bagg
where you received it y and to return it from one to another, till you can find
out the Counterfeiter 5 who if he be,apprehended, is only fentenc’d to lofe hi s
hand. If the Counterfeiter cannot be’ 1 found, and that ft be thought that he who
paid the Money is not guilty, he is acquitted upon fome fmall amerce meiit' This
brings great profit to the Changers. For v/hen there is any Sum of Money receiv’d
or paid, the Merchant^aufe him to loqFit over, and for their pains,.r they have
one fixteenth of a Roupie in the hundred. I
As for the Money which is paid out of the Sarcjuetj or Kings Exchequer, there
is never any found that is counterfeit: ForalltheMoneythatis earn’d in thither,
is exadly view’d by the. Kings Bankers The Great Lords have alfo,their par
ticular Bankers. Before they put up the Money intoThe Treafuty, they throw
it into a great CharcoaLfire, and when the Ronpies are red-hot, they quench the
fire, by throwing watermpon it y and then take out the Money. If there be any
Piece that is white^ or that has the leaft mark of Alloy, it is prefently cut in
pieces. As often as thefe Romes are carried into the Treafury, they mark the
Pieces with a Puncheon, which makes an hole, but!not quite through ^ and there
are Tome Pieces that have feven or eight holes made in that manner, tq.ihew that
they have been fo manyTimes in the Exchequer. They are all put, a thoufand
Pieces together, in a Bagg, feal’d witjiThe Seal of the great Treafurer, and
the number of years fuperferib’d, fince they were coin’d. And here you are to
take notice, whence the Treafurersprofit arifes, as well that of the Kings Trea
furer, as that of the particular Treafurcrs of the Great Lords of the Kingdom.
When there is any'bargain made, They agree for new Roupies coin’d the fame
year: but when they come to receife the'payment, the Treafurers will make it
in old Rottpies^ wherein there is a jofs of fix per Cent. So that if they will have
new Silver, the Merchants muft compound with the Treafarer. In my fifth Voy
age, I went to vifit Cba-Rft^Kan according to my promife, to let him have the
£rft fight of what 1 brought along with me. So that as foon as I arriv’d at Su«
ran, I lent him word j and received his Orders to meet him at Choupan, a City
in the Province of Decan 7 to which he had laid Siege. Coming to him, in a lit
tle time, and a few words, I fold him the greatefl: part of what I had brought along
with me out of Europe : And he told me that he expected every day,that Money
fhould be fent him from Sur an to pay the Army, and to pay me alfo at the fame
time for what he had bought of me I could not imagin however, that fo great a
Prince as he, that commanded fo great an Army,had not ftore of Money by him j
but rather conjedur’d, that he had an intention to make me fome abatement, up
on thofe Pieces which he would put upon me in payment, as he had ferv’d me be
fore. It fell out, as I forefaw. But for Provifions for my felf, my men, and my
Horfes, he took fuch order, that there was great plenty brought me, night and
morning, and for the molt part he fent forme my felf, to his own T able_ den or
twelve days thus paft away, and ndt a word of the Money that I expected : bo
that being Tefolv’d to take my leave of him, I went to his Tent. He appear d to
be fomewhat furpriz’d, and looking upon me with a frowning-brow .* wherei 0 ^
will you be gone, faid he, before you are paid ? or who d’you think, mail pay
you afterwards,if you go away before you receive your Money? Uponthele wor s,
with a countenance as Item as his, my King, replied I, will fee me paid, born
goodnefs is fuch, that he caufes all his Subjeds to be pai$j that have not recei ^
latisfadion for fuch Goods as they fell in Forreign Countries. And what co
will be take, anfwer’d he in a great choler: with two or three flout Men oi ?
laid I, which he will fend cither to the Port of Snratt, or towards the coa ^