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Weights and Measures.
Librata terræ containeth four Oxgangs
and every Oxgang 13 Acres. Min. |
Chap. 114. |
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A Yard land containeth in some places more, in some
other less. |
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And yet Mr. Norden, in his Surveyors Dialogue,
page 59 saith, that every
Plow-land containeth commonly 120 Acres; and every Plow-land is four
Yard-land (in Latin called quatrona terræ or virgata terræ)
every Yard-land
containeth thirty Acres: And yet after some computation, every Yard-land
containeth but 20 Acres, and in some places 24 Acres; and this is the
common account with us on the East part of Cambridg-shire. |
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Not that I have set you down the contents of most
Weights and Measures,
you must farther observe. |
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§. 26.
Standard
in every
Shire-town. |
First, That in every County (in the principal or
Shire-Town there)
there are (or ought to be) standards of Brass for Weights and Measures,
(sc. for the Bushel and Gallon) according to the kings Standard
of his
Exchequer, there to remain with the chief Officers of the same Town;
according to the scantling of which every City, Borough and Market-town
within the same County ought to make them common Weights and Measures,
to be marked by him that keepeth the Standard. |
11 H. 4.
12. H. 7. 5.
P. 7. |
| Market-Town. |
Also in every City, Borough and Market-Town, there
ought to be a
common Balance, and a common Bushel, and Weights sealed, and according
to the standard in their Shire-Town (as aforesaid,) upon pain to every
City 5 l. to every Borough 5 l. and to every Market-Town
40 s. for their
defaults. |
11 H. 6. 8.
8 H. 6. 5.
P. 5. 11. |
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Also no man within any City or Market-town ought
to buy or sell with
any Weights or Measures except they be sealed and marked in form aforesaid
(scil. according to the King's Standard, and by the Officers in
whose
possession the King's Standard remaineth:) nor any other person out
of a
Market-town, except their Weights and Measures be like and equal with
the standard. See Rastall, fol. 531. c. diu. 33. |
11 H. 7. 4.
P. 9, 7. |
Weights
and Measures
sealed. |
And yet it seemeth by the Statute 31 Ed. 1.
& 8 h. 6. 5. (Rastall, diu. 3.
& 26.) that no man (though out of a Market-town) shall use Weights
or Measures, nor other thing in the place of Weights or Measures that is
not sealed according to the Kings standard, upon pain to forfeit the value
of the Goods weighed or measured, and two years Imprisonment, and to be
fined and ransomed, and yield quadruple damages. See Rastall,
tit. Weights,
& Cromp. 94. & stat. incerti temporis, ca. 8. Poulton,
Stat. at large, pag. 112. |
See Ra. diu.
315.
26, 29, 32,
43, 27, E. 2.
c. 20.
8 H. 6. c. 5.
13 R. 2. c. |
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The Officer that keepeth the Standard (in the Shire-Town)
shall mark
and seal other Weights or Measures to all other the Kings Subjects that
shall require it; and they shall take for the marking of the Bushel but
1 d.
and for all other Measures but an half-peny; and for Weights, for every
hundred weight 1 d. and for half an hundred weight an half-peny
and for
every weight under, but a farthing. |
21 H. 7. 4.
P. 8. |
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