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Weights and Measures.
' Half-bushel or Peck; and a farthing for a Gallon, Pottle, Quart, Pint
or
' Half-pint, upon due Proof and Conviction, shall incur the Penalties
in
' 17 Ca. 2. c. 19. 22 Car. 2. |
Chap. 112. |
§. 9.
Providing
Measure. |
' At the charge of such person as hath the Toll
and Profit of the Market
' before the twenty ninth of September, 1670. shall be provided
one
' Measure of Brass, and chained in the Market-place, or else forfeit
5
l. to
' be recovered as by that Act is directed. One moiety to the Poor,
the
' other to him that Sues, 22 Car. 2. |
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§. 10.
Search. |
' Every Constable shall search if any use any other
Measure, or shall
' strike the same otherwise than that Act directs, or buy or sell by
unsealed
' Measures; and if he find any unsealed, to break it, and to present
those
' Offences to the next private or quarterly Sessions, 22 Car. 2. |
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§. 11.
Forfeiture. |
' None shall buy Corn or Salt by the Bag, or unmeasured,
being thereunto
' required, or in any other manner than is by the Act of 22 Car.
directed,
' and that without shaking the Bushel; or if he do, shall besides
' the Penalties in the former Act, forfeit the Corn or Salt so sold,
or the
' value thereof to the persons complaining, 22 & 23 Car. |
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§. 12.
Proof. |
' Upon Complaint to any Justice that any Corn or
Salt is sold contrary
' to the Act, the Defendant must make it appear by one witness, that
he
' bought the same according to that Act, or else to forfeit, as by
the former
' Act is directed, to be levied by Distress and Sale, prout.
One moiety
' to the Poor, the other to the Informer, 22 & 23 Car. 2. |
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| Sealing. |
' Where there is no Clerk of the Market, the Head-Officer,
or person
' having the profit of the Market, may Seal Measures, 22 & 23 Car.
2. |
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And yet notwithstanding the Statutes of Magna
Charta, c. 25. and the several
Confirmations thereof, and the said Statute 17 Car. 1.
c.
19. there always
hath been, and still are, two kinds of Weights used in England,
and
both warrantable: The one by Law, and the other by Custom (as
it
seemeth) but they are for several sorts of Wares or Commodities; for
there is Troy weight and Averdupois. |
Rast. 8.
Din. fol. 5.
7. b. |
§. 13.
Sorts of
Weights. |
1. Troy weight is by Law; and thereby are
weighed Gold, Silver, Pearl,
precious Stones, Silk, Electuaries, Bread, Wheat, and all manner
of Grain
or Corn is measured by Troy weight. And this hath to the pounds
12
ounces,
or 20 s. sterling weight, and no more. It is called
by some,
Libra medica;
by others, Libra & uncia Trojana. |
Ibid. |
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2. Averdupois weight is by Custom (yet
confirmed also by Statute,) and
thereby are weighed all kind of Grocery Wares, Physical Drugs, Butter,
Cheese,
Flesh, Wax, Pitch, Tar, Tallow, Wools, Hemp, Flax, Iron, Steel,
Lead, and
all other Commodities not before named (as it seemeth) but especially
every
thing which beareth the name of Garble, and whereof issueth a refuse,
or waste,
See Rast. 8. fol. 527. and the Book of Assize, Impres.
1597.
This is called Libra
Civilis. |
Rast. 8. &
14.
27 El. 3.
c. 10. |
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The word Averdupois in French, is
as much as to say, to have full weight,
Habere pondus. Geo. Agricola in his Learned Tractate,
De ponderibus
& mensuris, pag. 339. saith thus of both these kinds of Weights,
Medica
&
civilis libra numero non gravitate unciarum differunt. |
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And this hath to the pound 16 ounces, or 25 s.
sterling
weight. |
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Also in this Averdupois weight, unto every
Hundred is allowed twelve
pounds weight; so as One hundred and twelve pounds make a hundred
weight, six and fifty pounds make half a hundred, and twenty eight
pounds make a quarter. |
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Also all manner of Averdupois shall be weighed
by lawful Weights, sealed
according to the Standard of the Exchequer. P. Weights 14. |
27 Ed. 3.
10. |
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