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' Troy Weights had for fome time been eftablifhed 
and ufcd for the Money Affairs in the Mint , and 
for weighing Gold, Silver, and fome few Commo- 
dities ; and the Avoir depots were in general Ufe for 
weighing all heavy and grofs Commodities. Wine 
Mcafure was generally look’d upon as equal to Troy 
Weight : From hence the Managers of the Excife 
Duty were perhaps led to fix the Standard of the 
Ale Gallon, bearing the fame Proportion to the 
Wine Gallon as the Avoir depots Pound did to the 
Troy ; and according to this Conje&ure, the two 
Gallons anfwer pretty exactly (i) ; the Ale Gallon 
exceeding the Proportion by fomewhat more than one 
cubic Inch and one Quarter ; but it exceeds the Win - 
chejler Gallon, or 268,2 cubic Inches by very near 
14 cubic Inches: And not one of thefe Meafures is 
agreeable to the Words of the AJJife, which diredts, 
(2) ‘ That the j 3 #/ 7 ;?/ fhail contain 8 Gallons of Wheat, 
* the Gallon 8 Pound of Wheat of Troy Weighty 
1 the Tound J2 Ounces of Troy Weight/ e> v r. ac- 
cording to the old Laws of this Land. 
It is very plain the Law- makers in Henry the 
Vll th ’s Time took the Troy Weight for the Standard; 
and mod Authors who have wrote upon this Subject 
have follow’d their Example. 
The great Difficulty we are under in fixing upon a 
Standard 'Pound, agreeable to the AJJife , arifes from 
the Uncertainty of the Rule laid down in our Laws 
of 
(1) For, as 144 : 175 :: 231 : 280, 729 — And as 144 : 
175 : : 224 : 272, 222. This lafl comes very near the vulgar dry 
Gallon. 
(2) 12 H. VII, (. 5. 
