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Usance payable at Florence or Leghorn, is two months; but from thence payable at London, usance is three months.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696
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Usance from London to Seville, is two months; as likewise between London and Lisbon, and Oporto, to or from.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696
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Usance from London to Rouen or Paris, is one month; but they generally draw at a certain number of days, usually twenty-one days 'sight.
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696
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Usance between London and all the towns in the States Generals 'dominions, and also in the provinces now called the Austrian Netherlands
The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696
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