Stralsont
Sources from old books:
1700. The merchants map of commerce by Roberts, Lewes. CHAP. CCXXIX. Of Stralsont, and the Trade thereof.
STralsont lies also in this Tract, and is found seated on the Baltick Sea, opposite to the Island of Raugi, where the late King of Sweden first landed in his Invasion of the Empire: it is now subject to the Duke of Pomeran, and in whose cause it hath endured; long and streight Siege; but being well and strongly fortified, by suffering it overcame, and 〈◊〉 now accounted a famous Mart in these Northern parts for Grain, Pitch, Tar, Rosin, Honey, Wax, Hides, Tallow, and the like. Here passeth in Merchandize the Moneys of Nor•…, Denmark, Sweden, and Germany, of all which I have spoken, and the Duke hath also a pecular Coin, which is stamped in equal value to the Imperial Dollar, as above is said.
The Weight of Stralsont is the Pound, 10 whereof is accounted for a Stone, and 16 for a Lis-pound, and the 100 l. in London hath produced here about 88 in 89 pound.
The Measure of length is the Ell, and is found to agree with the Ell of Statin, as is shewed hereafter.
I must not here omit a word in memory of the antient City of Julin, seated in the Dutchy, and which once was the principal City of Trade in all this Sea: for here the Vand•…, Saxons, Muscovites, Polonians, Swedes, English, Danes, and Germans, had their several Quartes of residency for Commerce; and all the Commodities of these Countries were brought •ither by these Nations. It is noted, that the Inhabitants were the last of all these Northern People that imbraced the Christian Religion, by reason that being in the height of their prosperity, perceiving the Gospel of Christ to thrive and increase in all their Neighbouring Territories, strictly prohibited, that no Stranger whatsoever here resident should embrace the same, nor that any should as much as mention any new Religion unto them; but in these latter days their great Traffick is lost, and they are become Religious according to the Superstition of that Religion they use, and since have suffered much by the vexation of the continual Wa• of the Danes, and appears now for the most part ruined, where I leave it, and pass thence to the next Town of Pomeran.