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111 the nth Year of Hen. VII. Complaint being 
made to the Parliament, that the ancient Statutes 
and Ordinances of the Realm relating to Weights 
and Meafures had not been obferved and kept, it 
was therefore Enabled, ‘ That there fhou d be deli- 
‘ vered to the Knights and Citizens of every Shire 
4 and City, one of every W eight and Meafare, which 
4 the King had caufed to be made of Brafs, accord- 
4 ing to his Standard in the Exchequer, to be dcli- 
4 vered to the refpedive Places mentioned in the Ad; 
4 and that the Inhabitants of all Cities, Boroughs, 
4 and Market-Towns, fhould make and ufe IVeights 
4 and Meafures made according to the Weights and 
* Meafures fo delivered as aforefaid.” In the next 
Year another Ad palled, reciting, ‘ That the King 
4 had made fuch Weights and Meafures of Brafs, ac- 
4 cording to the^/^Standard thereof remaining within 
4 his Treafury ; which Weights and Meafures, upon 
4 more diligent Examination, had been approved 
4 defedive, and not made according to the Statutes 
4 and old Laws , and were therefore recalled, and 
4 ordered to be broken, and other new Bufhels and 
4 Gallons were direded to be made and fifed, ac- 
4 cording to a new Bulhel and Gallon to be made 
4 according to the AJfize , to remain in the King's 
4 Exchequer:' Where we now find a Bufhel in the 
Cuftody of the Chamberlains called the IVinchefler 
Bufhel (i), and a Gallon agreeing thereto : Upon the 
Bufhel 
(i) The firft time I find it fo called by any Law, is in an Ad 
22 C. II. c. 8 . : And afterwards it is called by this Name in feve- 
ral Ads of Parliament ; but in the Ad juft now mentioned, it is 
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