APPENDIX, NO. III. 



CHRONOLOl 



1289 





A. D. 1283 Chief justice of the common pleas . 

 A justice of the common pleas . . 



1284 ^n ordinary korse in Berwick 

 A carcase (if multon in do, 



J'roni Easter to JFhitsunday 

 from JVhklsunday to S'. James' si 



day J 



thence to Michaclmass .... 



the7ice to Easier 



Ale in Bcnrick 



from Easter to Michaelmass . 

 the rest nj' the year .... 



1285 Grinding a quarter of wheat . . 



] 28G t Wheat 



by a grcflt storm it rose to . . 

 1288 Wheat in some parts of England . 



in otiier parts 



and in otliers 



in the west and north parts . . 



Barley 



Oats 



Wheat at London when dearest . 

 Wheat at Waverley in Surrey . . 



Wheat 



R)e 



Barley 



Beans and peas . . 



Oats 



A swan 



A duck 



"Wine, 31 tuns I pipe . . . . 

 Ale, bought at Norwich, 10 tuns 

 Wheat, 50 quarters .... 

 White peas, 3 quarters . . . 

 Blanched beans, \ quarter . . 



Beef, 15 carcases 



Fish of Aberdeen, iC X 



Stockfish, 2 C 



Herrings, \ last 



Sturgeon, l barrel 



Whale, 50lb. ... for . . 

 Cheese, 4 weyes (' ponderibus') 



Salt, 2 weyes 



Total expense of the above and 7 



all the other stores . . . _y 



Conmiander of tlie vessel . . 



. Seamen, 40, each 



• The Latin word is lagcna, the quantity of which has 

 ■ 'been much difputed. Butli in England and in Scotland it 

 was evidently fynonymous w'lih giiUan. For England we 

 have the relpcc^tablc authority of Af Paris^ p. 937 — 

 ' Menfuras vini five certvifia;, quas lagcnas '.<,! gatanei ap- 

 ' pellamus." For the identity of them in Scotland com- 

 pare Fordiin, p. 990 with il'ynio'.Ln, V. ii, f. ii8, and 

 JBoiviir'i SiOtkbronkon, V. ii, f. IIT, ; or Slatuta Roll. Ill, c. 



II ap. Skene, with AH Ja. I, c. 70, ed. Murray.— See alio 

 other examples in Arnot's Hijh of Edinhurgb, p. 90, nate 5v. 



III Scotland the antient lagena was capable of holding as 

 much water as weighed 12 pounds: and I2 lagense m«de 

 I boll. In procefs of time thefc meafures were enlarged, 

 and probably became irregular. In the year 1426 King 

 James I cftabliihed a ilandard at a medium between the 

 old mealure and the large one then in ufe, whereby the 

 boll was appointed to contain- 164 pounds (i6ounceseach) 

 of water, which is ftatcd to be 41 pounds more than the 

 old meafure. The gallon was at the fame time fixed to 

 weigh lo| pounds of water. 



per ann. ^40 O 



40 O 



10 



crallon ' 



quarter 



quarter 



1290 



O T3 



3 j; g 



C rt C 



^ 



"^ 



tun 



quarter 



carcase 

 hundred 



last 

 barrel 



weye 



per day 



• Dugdale's Orig. jurld. 



1 

 1 



4 

 o 



_ Statuta Gildae, cc. 18,24, 

 O O 10 f* 2ti. 

 O O 8 





 O 



O O Oi 



2 

 10 

 O 1 

 O 1 

 O 1 

 O O 

 O 

 O 



O 

 O 

 

 

 



o 



O 2 

 3 

 O 

 2 3 

 15 

 O 4 

 4 

 O 11 



O 

 1 



O 9 



O 11 



7 

 8 





 

 8 

 4 

 

 8 

 6 

 4 

 4 

 

 



o 







8 







4 



1 



4 

 10 

 10 



0' 



2 



41 







O 











8 



o 







f Stow's Survey, p. g23, 

 1 ed. 161S. 



y Knyghton, col. 24C7'. 

 ?■ Triveti Annales. 



> Stow's Annales. 

 Ann. Waverl. 



Dugdale's Warwick. 



120 19 5\ 



006 

 3 



Liber contra rotul. de an- 

 no 18 Edw. 1, in 

 Rymer's Collectanea 

 manuscripta, V. ii, p. 

 28-. 



It is to be regretted, that the Scottifh ftatutes regulat- 

 ing the alT.zes of weights and meafures are fo inaccurate, 

 that, when (Iriilly cianiined, difagreements are found even 

 in the fame afl. 



I have not been able to difcover; when the prefent 

 Scottilh gallon, which contains fomewhat more than 3^ 

 gallons of Englifh wine meafure, was introduced. The 

 want of a hiftory of weights and meafures renders all our 

 obfcrvations upon the relative value of goods and money 

 exceedingly defedive. 



f Knyghton [col. 1468] fays that the price of corn be- 

 gan to be very high this year, and continued generally 

 high for about forty years. 



t The Aberdeen filh are clalTcd among hard fifli (i. e. 

 fifli cured dry) in the accounts of King Edward's miUtary 

 flores. .Liber garderobae Edw. I, p. 118] Probably ha- 

 berdine, a name applied to dry filb, ii a corruption of 

 Aberdeen, 



