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‘Penny- weights, or Grain Weights, that are any 
ways efleemed or looked upon as Standards. 
The Weight mentioned in all our old Afts of Par- 
liament, from the Time of King Edward the Firft 
is univerfally allowed to be the Troy Weight, whofe 
i ound con lifted of Twelve Ounces, each of which 
contained Twenty Penny-weights : And as the Pound 
ls r le of the larged Engle Denomination 
commonly mentioned in thofe Afls, Twelve Ounces 
taken from the Pile of Troy Weights above-mem 
tioned, as there is no fingie Troy Pound Weight, 
mult now be reputed the true Standard of the Troy 
Found , Li fed at this Day in England . 
. Ecfides which Troy Standards, there are alfo kept 
m the Exchequer the following Standards for Aver 
Weights : That is to fay, a Fourteen Pound 
Bell Weight of Brais, marked with a crowned E. and 
infcnbed 
XIIII. POVNDE AVERDEPOIZ 
ELIZABETH. REGINA. 
1 582. 
as alfo a Seven F ound, a Four Found , a Two Found 
and a Engle Found, like Averdupots Bell- Weights and’ 
WhrW M k ked f J 0ll0 7 S ’ exce P tin S the Variations 
for the Number of Founds in each refpeftive Weight 
VII. A. 
AN°^§^Do 
E. L. 
1588. 
Ao REG. XXX. 
With which are alfo kept a Pile of flat Averdupois 
Weights, fiom u Pounds down to the 64th Part of 
a round * 
