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measure ; and semhle, since 5 Geo. IV. c. 74, an agreement to sell by 

 the Winchester bushel, not containing any declaration of the proportion 

 which that measure bears to the imperial bushel, is void {Wafls v. 

 Friend). By this act the imperial standard bushel of eight gallons or 

 80lbs. avoirdupois was substituted. For heaped measure (potatoes, 

 lime, and fruit, &c.) the same standard was adopted for the bushel, with 

 the proviso that the bottom of the vessel should be plain and even, and 

 19| inches from outside to outside. "In Mark Lane, however, wheat 

 (taking it only as an illustration, though as great a diversity exists as 

 to barley and other products) is nominally sold by the contents of the 

 imperial bushel without reference to weight. Measure is in fact found 

 to be so much affected by quality and other circumstances that practi- 

 cally an average estimate of the weight of the imperial bushel has been 

 formed, and 62lbs. is generally taken as equal to and representing the 

 imperial bushel. 



" In the markets of Birmingham, Warwick, Walsall, Stratford, Al- 

 cester, Worcester, Evesham, Kidderminster, Bromsgrove, Gloucester, 

 Tewkesbury, Hereford, Ledbury, and generally through the counties 

 of Warwick, Worcester, Gloucester, and Hereford, wheat is sold by the 

 bushel of 62lbs. ; whilst at Monmouth, Abergavenny, and in Mon- 

 mouthshire generally, it is sold by the bushel of 80lbs. At Nantwich, 

 Shrewsbury, Market Drayton, and Wellington, it is sold by the bushel 

 of 751bs. In Wolverhampton and Stafford 721bs. is reckoned to the 

 bushel. In Manchester English wheat is sold by the bushel of GOlbs., 

 and American wheat by the bushel of 70lbs. At Liverpool, Bideford, 

 and Torrington, a bushel of wheat means 701bs. ; at Aberystwith, 

 65lbs. ; at Carmarthen and Haverfordwest, 64lbs. ; at Hull and Boston, 

 and Lincolnshire generally, 63lbs. ; and at Wakefield, Doncaster, and 

 Leeds, GOlbs. At Aylesbury, Cirencester, Dorking, Farnham, Petworth, 

 Uxbridge, Midhurst, Oxford, Eobert's Bridge, Chichester, Biighton, 

 Linfield, and East Grinstead, wheat is sold by the load of five quarters ; 

 at Hitchin, by the load of five bushels ; at Pontefract, by the load of 

 three, and at Bedford by the load of five bushels. At Ulverstone wheat 

 is sold by the load of 144 quarts; at Bridgnorth, by the bag of 11 

 scores ; at Much Wenlock, by the bag of 1 1 scores and 41bs. ; at Lud- 

 low, by the bag of 11 scores and lOlbs. ; at Leominster, by the bag of 

 12 scores ; at Whitehaven, by weight of 14 stone ; at Nottingham and 

 Grantham, at 36 stone ; at IMalton and at Scarborough, by the weight 

 of 40 stone ; at Swansea, by the sack of three busliels ; at Barnard 

 Castle, Darlington, and Morpeth, by the boll ; at Beccles, by the coomb ; 

 at Preston and Garstang, by the windle of 2201bs. ; at Denbigh, by the 

 hobbett of 168lbs. 



