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to the Excife-Duty were to pay according to the JVine 
Gallon. 
We now find the Officers of the Revenue deter- 
mining the Contents of our Meafures of Capacity 
with great Exadnefs : For, on the 25th of May 1688, 
two general Officers of the Excife, in the Prefence of 
the Lord-Mayor, the Commiffioners of Excife, Mr. 
Flamjlead , and others, upon an exact Trial found that 
the old Standard JVine Gallon , kept in Guildhall , 
did contain but 224 cubic Inches; neverthelcfs, at 
that time it was thought convenient to continue the 
former fuppofed Content, being 231 cubic Inches, 
as the Standard JVine Gallon , and which has fincc 
been eftablifhed by a Law (1). 
In the Year 1696, an Experiment was made, in 
order to fix the true and exad Contents of the Brafs 
Standard Bufhel of Henry VII. which being filled 
with common Spring-Water, and the Water mea- 
fured out with great Nicety and Exadnefs ; the 
Bulhel (2) was found to contain 2145,6 folid or cubic 
Inches ; and the Water being weighed by the Stand- 
ard Weights in the Exchequer (and by a Beam, which 
would turn with fix Grains put into either Scale, 
with 30 Pounds in each Scale) was found equal to 
1 13 1 Ounces 14 Peny weights Troy j and at the fame 
Time and Place the Standard Troy Weights were 
compared with the Standard Avoir depots , and 15 
Pounds 
(1) 5 Ann. c. 27. § 17 This Ad fays. Any Cylinder 7 Inches 
Diameter, and 6 Inches deep, or any Veflel containing 231 cubi- 
cal Inches, and no more, Anil be a lawful Wine-Gallon. 
(2) Everard’i Summitry, p, 193, 
