| Rogers Ruding - 1819 - 518 Seiten
...twenty S Simon quoting Ware, ch. xxv. edit. 1704. h Simon, p, 32. ' Pat. 8 H. VII. p.2. Leake, p. 172. Sterlings, and every Sterling be of the weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land1™. •'• These two Statutes are... | |
| United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - 1821 - 276 Seiten
...measure of a bushel contain eight gallons of wheat, that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat, troy weight, and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land : and the new standard gallon, after... | |
| Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas, Sir Orlando Bridgeman - 1823 - 696 Seiten
...; and enacts, " That the measure of a bushel contain eight gallons of wheat, and that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat of troy weight, and...sterling be of the weight of thirty-two corns of wheat, which grow in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old law of this land." So that in this... | |
| 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 Seiten
...measure of a bushel contain eight gallons of wheat ; that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat, troy weight ; and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat, that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land ; and the new standard gallon, after... | |
| Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - 1831 - 360 Seiten
...measure of the bushel contain eight gallons of wheat; that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat, troy weight, and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear, according to the old laws of the land;" and the new standard gallon after the said... | |
| Rogers Ruding - 1840 - 456 Seiten
...it was then ordained, that every pound should contain twelve ounces of troy-weight, and every ounce twenty sterlings, and every sterling be of the weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land.9 These two statutes are noticed here... | |
| Robert Richard Tighe - 1858 - 752 Seiten
...(149G) it was enacted that the bushel should contain eight gallons of wheat, and that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat of troy weight, and...ounces of troy weight, and every ounce contain twenty sterlings,1 and every sterling be of the weight of thirty-two " comes of whete that grewe in the myddes... | |
| Charles Davies - 1871 - 394 Seiten
...measure of a bushel contain eight gallons of wheat, that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat, troy weight, and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land; and the new standard gallon, after... | |
| Robert Potts - 1876 - 389 Seiten
...the measure of a bushel contain eight gallons, and that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat Troy weight, and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the old laws of the land." The Tower pound then in use, and... | |
| Robert Potts - 1876 - 392 Seiten
...the measure of a bushel contain eight gallons, and that every gallon contain eight pounds of wheat Troy weight, and every pound contain twelve ounces...weight of thirty-two corns of wheat that grew in the midst of the ear of wheat, according to the »ld laws of the land." The Tower pound then in use, and... | |
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