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parcels of 3 2 grains each, and all three treighed exa6l 
2 2 jTroy grains ; confequently, 240 fuch penny weights, 
which the old pound conlifted of, were equal only to 
5400 of our prefent Troy grains, conformable to the de- 
claration of henry viii. _ Thus the weight of that old 
pound is clearly afcertained to be lighter than the jrre- 
fent Troy pound by | of an ounce ; and it clearly fhews, 
they were two different weights. By thofe ftatutes of 
HENRY III. and EDWARD I. it is faid, that 8 pounds were 
to make a wine gallon, and 8 of thofe gallons to be a 
bufhel, and 8 bulhels a quarter; confequently the wine 
and corn gallon were one and the famemeafure. Thefta- 
tute of the 1 2th of henry vii. fays, the gallon meafure 
was to be 8 pounds of wheat, which afcertains what was 
to be underftood by former ftatutes, and is confonarit to 
reafon, to fix the meafure of wheat by its own weight, 
not by that of wine, as wheat was an article of greater 
importance to the community to afcertain its meafure 
than wine ; and a gallon meafure to contain 8 pounds of 
wheat, muft be ^ part larger in cubical contents than a 
meafure to contain 8 pounds of wine. As it appears 
by 'the charter of william the Conqueror, that there 
were fealed ftandards made of weights and meafures, we 
cannot doubt, but they were preferved and kept in the 
king’s exchequer, for legal ftandards ; and as feveral fta- 
tutes dire6l their being made of metal, they were perma- 
nent and certain, whereby to make more: which henry 
Vn. exprefsly tells us he pracftifed, by making new ac- 
cording to the old; fo that there could be no need to re- 
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