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rent years, in the weight of fuch a quantity of wheat. 
The very near agreement of thefe computations, gives 
us fufficient realbn to conclude, that the old ftandard 
wine gallon, of 2 24cubic inches contents, found at Guild- 
hall in 1688, was of fame ftandard aflize, as was the an- 
cient gallon meafure ordained to hold 8 Saxon pounds of 
wheat; and of courfe then, the hufliel meafure mud; have 
been 1792 cubic inches contents, which will aj^pear t® 
hold nearly 64 Saxon pounds of Avheat, as by thofe old 
ftatutes it ought to do. For, as 1728 cubic inches : 1 7 9 2 
cubic inches :: 6 pounds Saxon ; 63^^ pounds Saxon, 
which is only about an ounce and three quarters fhort of 
64 pounds; and in fo large a quantity of wheat, is a 
trifling difference, naturally arifing in weight of wheat 
of different years. Thefe demonflrations, by figures, 
fufficiently prove, what the cubical contents of thofe an- 
cient Englifli meafures muff have been, according to the 
old ftatutes of aflize ; that is to fay, 
The gallon meafure, 224 cubic inches contents, to hold 8 pounds Saxon. 
Thebuftiel, 1792 ditto, 64 ditto. 
And as 8 bufliels made a quarter, the quarter contained 
512 Saxon pounds of wheat. Thefe were the ancient 
legal meafures, according to the old lav-s of aflize. 
It now remains to mention the particular ftatute of 
the 1 2th of HENRY VII. under which, an alteration was 
brought about in thofe ancient weights and meafures, 
without feeming to intend it ; as the ftatute itfelf differs 
not in fubftance from the other old laws of affize, except 
- calling the pound by a new name, T roy . But previous 
thereto, 
