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Weights and Measures.
Five hundred and twelve Pints
Two hundred fifty six Quarts
Sixty four Gallons
Quarter
Troy weight Eight Firkins
maketh the or
Four Kilderkins
Hogshead.
Two Barrels
Eight Bushels
Pint and Pound
Firkin and Bushel
So the
Barrel and Coomb
are of like content.
Hogshead and Quarter |
Chap. 112. |
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Also the Statute of 23 H. 8. cap. 4.
doth limit the weight of every of
these three Vessel s here next named, being empty, as followeth, scil.
1. The Barrel
26
2. The Half barrel or Kilderkin must weigh (being
empty) 13 Pounds.
3. The Firkin
6 1/2
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Measures of Corn.
All kind of Corn and Grain is measured by Troy
weight. |
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By Statute the Bushel must contain eight Gallons,
or sixty four Pounds
or Pints of Wheat, 31 Ed. 1. 12 H. 7. 4. P. Weights.
2 Rastal. 34 Din. |
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And yet by the Book of Assize, imprinted
An. Dom. 1597. the Bushel is to
contain fifty six pounds (or Pints) of Averdupois weight (which
is three
Pounds or three Pints and eight Ounces Troy, more than the Statute
or
Troy weight.) For fifty six Pounds or Pints Averdupois
weight and sixty
seven Pounds eight Ounces Troy weight do justly agree. |
See the
Book of
Assizes. |
§. 16.
Corn. |
Also eight Bushels stricken make the Quarter of
Corn, 11 Hen. 7. 4.
25 Ed. 3. 10. & 34 Ed. 3. 6. |
P. 3.
15 R. 2. 4.
P. 1. |
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Also every Measure of Corn shall be stricken without
heap, 25 Ed. 3.
10. And all Purveyances shall be by such measure, scil. stricken
without
heap. Ibid. |
34 E. 3. 6. |
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Water measure, sold within Ship board, shall contain
five Pecks stricken
to the Bushel. |
P. 9. |
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No person shall buy or sell with a Bushel, except
it be sealed and marked
by the Officer, and according to the King's Standard. |
P. 59. |
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But note, That in many Places and Countries the
measure of Corn doth
much differ, and the Bushel in one place is greater than in another. |
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And yet in the measure of Corn Consuetudo loci
est observanda, if it be
a Custom exceeding all memory, and used without any lawful Interruption;
for such time and usage sufficeth for a Law, though regularly Custom
or Prescription against a Statute is not good, except that they be saved
by
another Statute. See Br. Presc. 2. 50. Pl. 36.
b. & 8 H. 7. fol. 4. b. Doct.
& Stud. 47. |
9 H. 6 f. 56.
30 Ass. Pl.
38.
Co. Lib.
113, 115. |
Bushel.
Several
Clerks of
the Markets
cause the
diversity of
Measure. |
But this difference of measure of Corn should seem
to come partly from
the diversity of Clerks of the Market (there being a Clerk of the Market
for the King's House, another for the Prince, another for the Dutchy;
others in Corporate Towns, and others belonging to the Lords of Liberties) |
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