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iEDWARD III. fays, Some ‘merchants bought Avoirdujx)is 
merchandizes by one weight, and fold by another; which 
plainly implies, they bought by fome weight heavier than 
.the legal, and fold by the legal weight which was lighter; 
for it is rather too abfurd for fuppofitionto imagine, they 
■bought by a light weight, and fold by a heavier. The 
ftatute, therefore, to inforce obfervance of the law^s of 
aflize, only wills and eftabliflies, that there be, one weighty 
one meafure^ and one yard^ through all the land. This can 
be underftood to mean no other, than the legal aflize, 
which preceding fliatutes had enabled. And farther, 
in the reign of henry vi. we fee that buyers of corn, 
'bought by a veflTel, called a fatt, of 9 bufliels, which con- 
tained 7 2 gallons ; and like thofe merchants before men- 
tioned in the ftatute of EDWARD III. we may prefume they 
fold by -another meafure, the legal quarter of 8 bufliels, 
containing but 64 gallons : for the ftatute of 9th henry 
VI. forbids the buying by that veflel, called a fatt. The 
prohibition implies the illegality of the veflTel and its ufe, 
and implies alfo the inforcement of the laws of aflize. 
T aking therefore all the feveral ftatutes together, in one 
conne 61 :ed view, thofe that fix the laws of aflize, with 
thofe to reform abufes committed again ft them, we are 
led to conclude, thofe laws of aflize continued uniformly 
one and the fame, till henry vii. altered them. Having 
thus fliewn by thofe laws, that the old pound weight 
was a Saxon pound of twelve ounces, raifed from 32 
grains of wheat, and was equal only to 5400 of our pre- 
fent Troy grains; and that the meafure of capacity was 
a gallon. 
