A. D. 



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471 



Foreign merchants may fell wool to other foreign merchants within 

 our dominions without paying any duty : and, after they have paid 

 cuftom in one part of our dominions for their goods, they fhall not be 

 liable to pay it in any other part. 



Henceforth no exadion, prife, loan, or burthen of any kind, fhall 

 ever be impofed upon the merchants or their goods. [Fivdera, V. iv, p, 

 361, and V. ix, p. 72.] 



About this time a table of weights, meafures, &c. was made up by 

 authority, as follows. 



Weights. 



20 pennies (of money) i ounce, 

 1 2 ounces i pound of London, 

 124- pounds I ftone of London, 

 14 ftones 

 2 weyes (of wool) 

 12 facks 



I weye, 



I fack, 



I 



laft. 



15 ounces of /(ffli - i pound, 

 12 pounds - I ftone, 



5 ftones 10 pounds 1 fotmal, 



50 fotmals - - I car. 



But fome reckon only 12 weyes 

 to a car ; and in the Peek country 

 (owing, no doubt, to the fteepnefs 

 of the roads) the car is much lefs. 



Flax, tallow, and cheefe, are fold 

 by the weye of 14 ftones, as well 

 as lead and wool. 



Of wax, fugar, pepper^ cumin, al- 

 monds, and alum^ 

 15 ounces ~ - 



8 pounds 

 13I ftones 1 



I pound, 



I ftone, 



hundred-weight. 



Meafures. 

 8 pounds oi corn i gallon, 



8 gallons 1 bufliel of London. 



I o ellsoffrnelinenC ftndon') i head. 

 Of flax\ hemp, and linen, 



120 go to - I hundred. 



5 pounds of glafsf i ftone, 



24 ftones - 1 feem. 



The pound of twelve ounces is ufed only for money, fpices, and elect- 

 uaries, and the pound of fifteen ounces for all other things*. 



* I have extrafted the fenfe of this ordinance, Tlie pound o^ fifteen ounces appears alfo in the laws 



which is deficient, redundant, intricate, and fome- of Scotland. It lias probably been increafed to. 



times contradictory, as well as I could. It is pub- Jixteen, for the fake of a more corn client fubdivi.- 



lidied with the Statutes, and entitled ' Traftatus fian. 

 • de ponderibus et menfuris, anno 31 Edw. I.'— 



