 ... an English penny, called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and...  Report Upon Weights and Measures - Страница 26написао/ла United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - 1821 - 245 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
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...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." This statute, which was afterwards copied into that of the thirty-first year of Edward I., (1303,)... | |
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...is twenty shilling« sterling ; and eight pounds of wheat maketh a gallon of corn, and eight gallons make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. ' When the quarter of -wheat is sold for a shilling, then the wastefl, well boulfeed and clean, shall... | |
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