Series 2 > Household book of Lady Grisell Baillie

OF LADY GRISELL BAILLIE
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money loosing much, so change your French money for
Spanish or French Pistols befor you go into Italy, they go
all over it, and so dos Florentine, Genoese and Venetian
Sequins,1 which last are the best money, if you can get
them at the same price they are allways best but do not
take them in Lombardy. A Sequine is about the value
of half a guinea, what is cald a Roman croun, tho I never
saw the coin, is 10 Pauls, there is 20 Pauls in a Sequin,
in a Venetian Sequin I think there is 21 or 22 Pauls, a
Testoon is 3 Pauls.
The silver money in the Kingdome of Naples is different
from that all over Italy. In a Sequin there is Naples
ducats, in a ducat 10 Carlins, and a coin cald a terri which
is two Carlins.
In Germany Hungars is the money most curent, a
Hungar is a gold coin in which is 4 Florins and some times
10 or 12 Karrentari, 60 Karrentari make a Florin, 12
Karrentari make a Roman Paul, Spanish Pistols are also
good money here and are worth 7-| Florins. In going out
of the different dominions in Germany which come very
quck, some times twice in a day, you must take care to
get rid of your silver money, for what passes in one terri¬
tory will not pass for the same in another, and they are so
intricat and different little coins I can give no account of
them.
In every toun where you stay a day or more you may
hier a servant that knows the place and can conduct you
every where, there is always plenty to be had, but you
must get your Land Lord to recomend and answere for
their honesty, since there are many rogues amongst them,
their constant pay is a Testoon2 a day, or the value of it
alike all over Italy.
For seeing churches and palaces and most other places
give a Testoon, if you see any Sovereign’s house you must
give two Testoons, if you have audience of any Sovereign,
the guards and servants expect some thing to drink, half
a Pistol amongst them all is sufficient. At Rome a Croun
1 ios. 5d.