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Fuel 1. |
Weights and Measures.
For the assize of Fuel, scil. of Cole, Tall
wood, Billet and Fagot, see
the Stat. of 7 Ed. 6. 7. 43 El. 14. A sack of
Coles is four bushels. |
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Timber well hewen, and perfectly squared, fifty
foot thereof maketh
the load. |
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Lath shall contain in length five foot, in breadth
two inches, and in
thickness half an inch. |
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Tile, six score go to the hundred: as for the assize
thereof, (scil. the
length, breadth and thickness thereof.) See Statute 17 Edvardi
4. cap. 17.
P. Title. 2. |
Contents. |
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A Bale of Paper is ten Ream, a Ream is twenty quires,
a quire is twenty
five sheets. |
Paper. |
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A Roll of Parchment is five dozen or sixty Skins. |
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P. weights
4. |
Three Barly corns measured from end to end (or four
in thickness) make
one inch.
Four inches make a handfull, 27 H. 8. 6.
Twelve inches make a foot.
Three foot, a yard.
Three foot and nine inches make an ell.
Five foot do make a Geometrical pace.
Seven foot make a fathom.
Five yards and a half (which is 16 foot and a half)
make a pole, rood
or pearch. Ibid. |
§. 25.
Measures
of length.
Inch.
Handfull.
Foot.
Yard.
Ell.
Pace.
Fathom.
Pole. |
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And yet by the usage of many Countries the pole
doth vary, for in
some places it is 18 foot, and in some places 21 foot, and in other places
24 foot go to the pole: and there if a man sell a certain number
of Acres
if Wood, &c. it shall be measured according to the usage of the Country
there, and not according to this Statute, for herein consuetudo loci
est observanda.
See Cromp. des courts, fol. 32, & 222. |
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Co. 6. 67.
47 Ed. 3.
f. 18. |
The same reason may seem to hold of Measures of
Corn by the bushel.
See a little before. |
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Master Osborn writeth, that the measure of
18 foot to the pearch (or
pole) is commonly called wood-land-measure, 21 foot to the pole is called
Church-measure, (sc. of Land which now doth or formerly did belong
to the Church) and twenty four foot to the pole is called (and that rightly)
Forrest-measure. |
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Note, That the Clerk of the Market may enquire of
the pole or pearch
whereby Land is measured, as well as of other Measures. Cromp.
Author.
des courts, 221. But the Justices of peace are not to meddle
therewith,
especially out of their Sessions. |
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Also note, That no Measure shall be sealed but the
bushel, half bushel,
peck, gallon, pottle, quart and pint. Cromp. fol. 222.
tamen quære. |
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Forty pole in length make a furlong. |
Furlong. |
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Eight furlongs (or 320 pole) make an English mile. |
Mile. |
P. Weights
4. |
Note, That our English mile contains 280 foot more than the Italian
mile, the Italian mile being of 1000 paces, and five foot to a pace, and
so the Italian mile is in length 5000 foot, whereas the English mile is
5280 foot in length, 1760 yards. |
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Co. 9. 124. |
Forty pole in length and four in breadth (or 160
pole do make) an
Acre. Stat. Composit. ulnarum, & Stat. 34 Ed. 1. |
Acre. |
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And (by the opinions of Mr. Cambden, fol. 339.
and Hollinshead, p. 13.
impr. 1586.) one hundred acres is a hide of Land; but yet (it seemeth)
that a hide of land or plow-land, or carve of land, (which are all one)
are not of any certain content. See hereof before, tit. Highways. |
Plow-land. |
