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Ads of Parliament.* — The Stone for weighing Lead 
was (*) fettled at 1 2 ‘Pounds ; for Wax, Sugar, Spices, 
and Allom, at 8 Pounds > of which laft, 13-i, or 108 
Pounds, made the hundred Weight : The Sack of 
Wool (*) was to weigh but 26 Stone , 14 Pounds to 
each Stone : A Weye ( 3 ) of Chccfe 32 Cloves , each 
Clove 7 Pounds . And for many Years pad, the 
Hundred weight has been fixed (*) at 112 Pounds 
Avoir depots, and that by a general Confent, and 
without any patticular Law to eftablifh it. 
Thefe Weights have been univerfally and imme- 
morially (*) ufed in England , with an Exception to 
the weighing of Gold, Silver, and fome very few 
Commodities, for which the Troy Weight has been 
ufed for a great many Years. When it was firft 
introduced 
(1) Cay’s Abridgment Title freights, § 9. 
(2) 25 Ed. III. St. 5. c. 9. 13 R. II. (. 9. 
(3) 9 H. VI. c. 8. The Weye equalled 224 Pounds. 
(4) That is, 14 Stone at 8 Pounds, or & Stone at 14 Pounds each, 
according to the Old Laws, and prefent Ufage of the Stone Weight, 
The 1 12 Pound is a very convenient Weight for a Standard, be- 
caufe it is divifible into more even Parts than any lefs Number. — 
And it is compounded from the AJJife Bujhel, its Half and Quarter; 
that is to fay, 64.32, and 16 Pounds. 
(5) The Apothecaries (who, next to the Goldfmiths, are fuppofed 
to make the moll Ufe of Troy Weights) feldoin keep Weights ad- 
jufted to the Troy Pound heavier than two Drams; but for all 
above buy and fell by Avoirdepois : And with them, by the Term 
Libra in Meafure is meant the Wine Pint ; tho’ this Meafure is not, 
fay they,fo denominated from its containing an exa6f Pound-Weight 
ef any Liquor, and the Term Uncia in Meafure does not denotea 
twelfth Part of the Pint, but the fixteenth ; though in Weight, 
agreeable to its Signification, it is ufed to exprefs one twelfth Part 
of a Pound ; fo that an Ounce in Meafure is fcarce more than 
three Quarters of an Ounce in Weight. See Pembtrton's Difpenfary 
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