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Weights and Measures,
Now Millers are to take for the Toll but the twentieth
part, or 24 part
according to the strength of their Water, and custom of the Realm.
Stat.
3 E. 1. de Victulariis. Rast. tit. Weights, Din. 7. |
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§. 20.
Millers. |
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And yet in some places the Millers do claim and
take the 16 part; and
where the Custom hath been so used time out of mind, it seemeth good
and
warrantable. Tamen quære. |
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But the Miller ought to take but one quart for grinding
of one bushel
of hard Corn, and if he fetch and carry back the grist to the owner,
he
may take two quarts of hard Corn; and this hard Corn is intended of
Wheat, Rye, Meslin (which is Wheat and Rye mixed.) And for Malt,
the Miller shall take but half so much Toll as he taketh for hard Corn,
(sc. one pint in the bushel) for that Malt is more easily ground
than Wheat
or Rye: but if the Miller do fetch to his Mill, and carry back the
Malt
to the Owner's house, then the Miller also shall have double Toll.
See
Cromp. author. des Courts, 221, & 224. |
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' Note, That Millers are not to be common-buyers
of any Corn, to sell
' the same again, either in Corn or Meal: But ought only to serve
for
' the grinding of Corn that shall be brought to their Mills.
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18 H. 6. 17.
P. wine. 13.
1 R. 3. 13. |
Measures of Wine, Beer and Ale, &c.
Rondlet, 16 and di.
Wine, their measure
Barrel, 32 and di.
Oil, and is all
Hogshead,
63 Gallons.
Honey one sc. the
Pipe,
126
Tunn,
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§. 21.
Measurers
of Liquids. |
23 H. 8. 4.
P. Coop. 2. |
Yet for Honey the Assize is altered to 32 Wine-gallons
the Barrel, 16
gallons the Kilderkin, &c. 23 El. 8. P. Wax, 6.
Firkin, 9
Beer; the Measure thereof Kilderkin,
18 Gallons.
is as followeth, scil. the
Barrel, 36 |
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And so Beer measure containeth in the Barrel four
gallons more than
Wine or any other Vessel.
Firkin, 8
Ale; the Measure thereof Kilderkin, 16
Gallons.
is as followeth, scil. the
Barrel 32
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No Cooper shall make any other Vessel for Beer or
Ale, to be sold
within this Realm, of any greater or lesser number of gallons than is aforesaid,
unless he shall cause to be marked upon every such Vessel (of greater
or lesser number of gallons) the true and certain number how many gallons
every such other Vessel shall contain. 23 H. 8. c. 4. |
§. 22.
Coopers. |
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Also no Brewer of Beer or Ale shall put the Beer
or Ale to sale, to be
spent within this Realm, in any other barrels, kilderkins, firkins, or
other
Vessels of Wood, other than shall be marked by a Cooper, and whereof
every Vessel shall contain and hold the number of gallons abovesaid,
of full
and just measure, or above, and not under that measure. Ibid. |
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The Wardens of Coopers in all Cities and Boroughs
where there be such
Wardens, and in all other Boroughs and Towns, the Mayor, Sheriffs, Bailiffs,
Constables or other Head-officers, may search and gage all such Vessels
(made in such City or Town) whether they bear their true contents, as
aforesaid; and if they find any Vessel defective, they may mark or amend
the
same, according to the true content, or else may cause the same to be burned.
Ibid. |
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