 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1822 - 488 pages
...ounce, and twelve ounces one pound, and eight pound do make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part...Norman race : and this statute was passed exactly two nundred years after the conquest. It is merely an exemplification, word for word, embracing several... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...and twelve ounces one pound, and eight pounds 3d make a gallon of wine ; and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter.' -••In -the 17th year of Edward II. 's reign, AD 1324, linear measures also were referred to a natural... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 828 pages
...ounces one pound ;' 4 tight pounds, it is added, do make one gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. Of the old gold standard, the principal coins were nobles, of 6s. 8rf. value; half and quarter or farthing... | |
 | Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - 1831 - 360 pages
...ounce, and twelve ounces one pound, and eight pounds do make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. In the 31st of Edward I. 1304, this statute was repeated in nearly the same words, though varying them... | |
 | Thomas Best Jervis - 1835 - 120 pages
...ounce, and twelve ounces one pound, and eight pounds do make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter." Now the basis of the whole fabric of the system of English weights, as Mr. Adams, Secretary of the... | |
 | Thomas Best Jervis - 1836 - 696 pages
...“twelve ounces one pound, and eight pounds do make “a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine, do make “a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarIn Grafton's Chronicles also, these w3rd¿ “About “this tyme was made the statute of weights... | |
 | mrs. Henry Ayres - 1843 - 470 pages
...an ounce ; and 12 ounces one pound; and 8 pounds do make one gallon of wine ; and 8 gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter." LAVINIA. You have not said anything about those short words at the end of the pennyweights, &c. CONSTANTIA.... | |
 | mrs. Henry Ayres - 1846 - 400 pages
...an ounce; and 1 2 ounces one pound ; and 8 pounds do make one gallon of wine ; and 8 gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter." LAVINIA. You have not said any thing about those short words at the end of the pennyweights, &c. CONSTANT!!.... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - 1863 - 162 pages
...and twelve " ounces one pound, and eight pounds do make a gallon of " wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel " which is the eighth part of a quarter." It would, perhaps, be impossible to lay down in fewer words so complete and congruous a system as that... | |
 | Leone Levi - 1866 - 530 pages
...ounce, and 12 ounces a pound; and eight pounds do make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. This definition is repeated in the Tractatus de Ponderibns et Mensnris, which stands as a statute of... | |
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... an English penny, called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and... 
