WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. 167 



weights and measures being made of bronze. In the next 

 year., however, it was found that some errors had been com- 

 mitted. The act of the previous year was therefore rescinded, 

 and orders were given that the measures and weights issued in 

 pursuance of its provisions should be delivered up and new 

 ones be obtained from the Exchequer. I have been informed 

 by Mr. Chancy, of the office of the Comptroller of the Ex- 

 chequer, that Elizabeth's standards are stated to have corre- 

 sponded with those of Henry the Seventh and Edward the 

 Third. 



As far as I have been able to discover, after diligent search, 

 the Guildhall measures have disappeared, and also a bushel 

 figured in Milner's Antiquities of Winchester, and ascribed to 

 King Edgar; but some bushels of Henry the Seventh remain. 

 Two of these, in the Exchequer Office, are, I am informed, the 

 defective and the perfect bushel mentioned above, the latter 

 containing 2134 cubic inches, that is, about 84 cubic inches 

 less than the imperial bushel. Another bushel of Henry the 

 Seventh, preserved in the Museum at Winchester, contains, as 

 I am informed by Mr. Moody, the Curator of that institution, 

 seven-eighths of a quart less than the imperial standard ; that 

 is, is nearly 61 cubic inches less. A peck of doubtful date, 

 preserved in the Ashmolean Museum, actually contains a gill 

 more than the imperial standard. 



The quarter, bushel, and peck are the almost universal 

 measures for corn. Some few others, however, occur, of which 

 3. short notice will be sufficient. In Ireland the crannock c is 

 used instead of the quarter. It is, however, plainly identical 

 with it, being divided into the same number of bushels and 

 pecks. It is to be observed, however, that the Irish crannock 

 of oats contained sixteen bushels. This duplication of the 

 quarter of oats is found in English measures, as at Deng- 

 marsh in 1285, Pevensey and Lecton in 1291, Wyllindon in 



c According to Arthur Young, Southern Tour, p. 165, this measure was used in 

 Glamorganshire in his time. It is possible, therefore, that the name, the capacity of 

 which has been wholly misunderstood, is of Welsh origin, and transmitted from Wales to 

 the Pale, Bigod having inherited some of Strongbow's conquests. 



