62 THE WILTSHIRE ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND NATURAL HISTORY MAGAZINE | 
10 October 1538 
Aldhelm Lambe 
of East Coulston 
18 October 1538 
Alexander Langford 
the elder 
of Trowbridge 
19 November 1538 
the wife of Richard Bathe 
of Edington [ 6 
the strypes yallow & the letters rede 
murray [murrey] = the colour of the mulberry, purple- 
red 
Appendix 3 Weights, Measures and 
Currency 
Glossary of some words used in Kytson’s ‘Boke of 
Remembraunce’. The abbreviations or spellings used by Kytson 
and his clerks are in parentheses. 
BASIC UNITS OF LENGTH 
Yard (yd) 3 feet = 36 inches 
Quarter (q or qtr) 9 inches 
BASIC UNITS OF WEIGHT 
Ton 20 hundredweights (C, hundreth) 
Hundredweight 4 quarters (qt’) 
Quarter 28 Avoirdupois pounds (Ib) 
ALE, BEER, OIL and WINE 
Barrel 36 gallons 
Hogshead 54 gallons 
Pipe 126 gallons 
Tun (tonne) 252 gallons 
CLOTH 
English ell 45 inches = 1% yards (yds) = 5 
quarters (q or qt’) 
Flemish ell 27 inches 
French ell 54 inches 
Aune (An,) 1? English ells = 2 yards 3 inches 
CURRENCY 
English 
Pound sterling (li) 20 shillings sterling (s) 
Shilling 12 pence sterling (d) 
Noble 6s 8d 
Flemish 
Pond groot 20 schellingen Flemish (s ff,) 
Schellingen Flemish 12 groten Flemish (g ff, ) 
(The exchange rate in the mid-1530s fluctuated about 26 
schellingen Flemish to 20 shillings sterling) 
HOPS 
Sack indeterminate, but usually about 3 
hundredweight 
PEPPER 
Bale about 2 hundredweight 
TIN 
Block about 3 hundredweight 
WOAD 
Bale 2 Balletts 
Ballett about 7 quarters (qt’) = about 196 
pounds (Ib) 
