Voyager's Tales by Richard Hakluyt
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The Mariers Bassi, masters over the shipwrights and caulkers of the
navy, nine, at twenty aspers the piece, amounteth to three thousand fourscore and four pounds, four shillings. The Master Dassi, shipwrights and caulkers, one thousand, at fourteen aspers, and amounteth to, by the year, thirty thousand six hundred and threescore pounds. Summa totalis of daily payments amounteth by the year sterling one million nine hundred threescore eight thousand seven hundred and thirtyfive pounds, nineteen shillings, and eight pence, answered quarterly without default with the sum of four hundred fourscore twelve thousand one hundred fourscore and four pounds, four shillings, and eleven pence, and is for every day five thousand three hundred fourscore and thirteen pounds, fifteen shillings, and ten pence. ANNUITIES OF LANDS NEVER IMPROVED FIVE TIMES MORE IN VALUE THAN THEIR SUMS MENTIONED, GIVEN BY THE SAID GRAND SIGNIOR AS FOLLOWETH: To the Viceroy for his timar or annuity, 60,000 gold ducats. To the second pasha for his annuity, 50,000 ducats. To the third pasha for his annuity, 40,000 ducats. To the fourth pasha for his annuity, 30,000 ducats. To the fifth pasha for his annuity, 20,000 ducats. |
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