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ciir to 3 2 grains of wheat, much lefs to 7 6 8 o, every time 
new ftandards were to be made, unlefs we fuppofe onr 
anceftors defective in common fenfe. Whenever, by 
new ftatutes, frelli ftandards were directed to be made^ 
we may obferve, the aiiize of weight and meafure coi\- 
tiimed uniformly fixed and defcribed to be one and the 
fame, to drew there was no alteration made or intended. 
And thus, by the laws of Affize, from william the Con- 
queror to the reign of henry vii. the legal pound weight 
continued a pound of 1 2 ounces, railed from 3 2 grains 
of wheat, and the legal gallon meafure invariably to con- 
tain 8 of thofe pounds of w^heat, 8 gallons to make a 
bufliel, and 8 bufliels a quarter; the bulhel, therefore,, 
contained 64 of thofe pounds of wheat, and the quarter 
512 pounds. Thefe were the legal weights and mea- 
fures for common ufe, during that period. The firft al- 
teration, really made therein, was in the 1 2th year of 
HENRY VII. as will be mentioned hereafter. That the 
laws of Aiiize were often infringed, is very evident from 
the frequent complaints,mentioned in cotton’s Abridge- 
ment of the Tower Records, again fl the king’s purveyors ; 
particularly in the 14th of edward hi. for remedy 
againft outrageous takings of purveyors; and in the 4 5 th 
of EDWARD III. that the king fhould be ferved by com- 
mon meafure\ and in the 3d of henry v. that the king’s 
purveyors do take 8 buPoels of corn onfy, to the quarter 
flriked. The general anfwers whereto were, that the fta- 
tutes fhould be obferved. It appears alfo, that others in- 
fringed the laws of affize. For the Ratute of 27th of 
H 2 EDWARD' 
