Weights and Measures - Revision history

ColinGreenstreet: /* P */

2021-12-08T17:46:17Z

‎P

ColinGreenstreet: /* G */

2021-12-08T17:44:37Z

‎G

ColinGreenstreet: /* D */

2021-12-08T16:49:29Z

‎D

ColinGreenstreet at 07:42, May 7, 2018

2018-05-07T07:42:00Z

PaulaMarmor: tweak "Bahaire"

2018-04-03T19:24:30Z

tweak "Bahaire"

PaulaMarmor: /* B */ remove bad transcriptions of "bahaires"

2018-04-03T19:03:44Z

‎B: remove bad transcriptions of "bahaires"

ColinGreenstreet at 06:05, April 3, 2018

2018-04-03T06:05:32Z

ColinGreenstreet at 06:02, April 3, 2018

2018-04-03T06:02:36Z

PaulaMarmor: /* C */ Cedar chests

2018-04-02T22:45:29Z

‎C: Cedar chests

PaulaMarmor: /* C */ Chalder, Chaldren, Chaldron

2018-04-02T22:41:21Z

‎C: Chalder, Chaldren, Chaldron

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 '''Packett'''
 '''Parcell''' (= parcel; prcell; pcell) ("a parcell of flax to be brought unto Roscoe"; a parcell of tarre brought to this port of London in a shippe called the ''ffortune'' (HCA 13/125))
-'''Peeces'''
+'''Peeces''' (''usage'': of fruit, of ordinance)
 '''Peices'''
 '''Pense'''
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 '''Punchions'''
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 '''Genoa weight'''
 '''Great trunks''' ("thirty quoyles of rope two great trunks, severall quarter caskes with [?XXXX] and oyle, and barrells of pitch and tarre, and some other things which were for the said Woods owne private trade and account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
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 ====H====

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 '''d''' = pence
 '''Dartmouth measure'''
 '''Dozen'''
 '''Dutch miles'''
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 ====E====

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 '''s''' = shilling
 '''Sacks'''
 '''Sea miles'''
 '''Serons'''

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 '''Bags''' (= bagges) (e.g. pepper) ('''1.''' "to be laded aboard her for the said companies use and account, containing fiftie foure baggs of pepper which weighed 3896 pounds net English weight" (HCA 13/73); '''2.''' "whatsoever bills of ladeing are in the bagges"<ref>[[HCA 13/64 f.6v Annotate|HCA 13/64 f.6v]]</ref>
 '''Baggs''' ('''1.''' "having already received and laden aboard her one hundred baggs of wool and 400 baggs and upwards of gaulls"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.19r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.19r]]</ref>; '''2.''' "Ciprus cotton woolls are usually and ordinarily putt in very great baggs, which cannot be stowed without very great paines and difficulty")<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.19r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.19r]]</ref>
-'''Bahaire''' (''alt.'' Bahair) ("this deponent  went in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' boate ashore, and there caused about a bahaire of pepper to be put on board the said boate"<ref>[[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part Two|HCA 13/73 Part Two]]</ref>; "this deponent had sent out the foresaid 672 bahair of pepper on board the ''Bantam ffrigot''<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.274r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.274r]]</ref>) COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: in 1752, Wyndham Beawes noted "BAHAR, BAHAIRE, or BARRE, a weight used in Ternate, Mocha, in the Moluccas, and several places in the East Indies. It is of two kinds, the greater and the less. The greater is used for weighing pepper, cloves, ginger, nutmegs, &c., and is equal to 524lb. 9oz. avoirdupoise."  PRIMARY SOURCES: Wyndham Beawes, ''Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.'', 1752<ref>Wyndham Beawes, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OCNhAAAAcAAJ Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.]'', 1752</ref>
+'''Bahaire''' ("this deponent  went in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' boate ashore, and there caused about a bahaire of pepper to be put on board the said boate"<ref>[[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part Two|HCA 13/73 Part Two]]</ref>; "this deponent had sent out the foresaid 672 bahaires of pepper on board the ''Bantam ffrigot''<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.274r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.274r]]</ref>) COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: in 1752, Wyndham Beawes noted "BAHAR, BAHAIRE, or BARRE, a weight used in Ternate, Mocha, in the Moluccas, and several places in the East Indies. It is of two kinds, the greater and the less. The greater is used for weighing pepper, cloves, ginger, nutmegs, &c., and is equal to 524lb. 9oz. avoirdupoise."  PRIMARY SOURCES: Wyndham Beawes, ''Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.'', 1752<ref>Wyndham Beawes, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OCNhAAAAcAAJ Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.]'', 1752</ref>
 '''Bales''' "three bales of linnen marked as farr as this deponent can now remember with an '''R.''' or some such like marke, which three bales the sayd Claviel told this deponent then standing upon the Strand" (HCA 13/79 no f.))
 '''Barrs''' ("severall parcells of silver in barrs)<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.372v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.372v]]</ref>

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 '''Webbs'''
 '''Weighing neate'''
-'''Winchester measure''' ("pay unto Mr. Edward Cowes, Giles Silvester, and William Maskeline, or their assignes, at New London in New England, aboard such ship or vessell as
+'''Winchester measure''' ("pay unto Mr. Edward Cowes, Giles Silvester, and William Maskeline, or their assignes, at New London in New England, aboard such ship or vessell as the said Edmund, Giles and William shal order to receave the same, two thousand bushels, Winchester measure, of good and well-conditioned wheat, at three shillings and six-pence per bushell, and twelve hundred bushells of pease, at two shillings and sixpence per bushell, all which amount vnto five hundred pounds sterling")<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/letterfromgovjoh00wintrich#page/n5/mode/2up Connecticut Historical Society, A letter from Gov. John Winthrop, respecting the payment of expenses for obtaining the Connecticut charter (Hartford, CT, 1860), pp. 53-55], viewed 03/04/2018</ref>
 the said Edmund, Giles and William shal order to receave the same, two thousand bushels, Winchester measure, of good and well-conditioned wheat, at three shillings and six-
 pence per bushell, and twelve hundred bushells of pease, at two shillings and sixpence per bushell, all which amount vnto five hundred pounds sterling")<ref>[http://archive.org/stream/letterfromgovjoh00wintrich#page/n5/mode/2up Connecticut Historical Society, A letter from Gov. John Winthrop, respecting the payment of expenses for obtaining the Connecticut charter (Hartford, CT, 1860), pp. 53-55], viewed 03/04/2018</ref>
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 '''Bags''' (= bagges) (e.g. pepper) ('''1.''' "to be laded aboard her for the said companies use and account, containing fiftie foure baggs of pepper which weighed 3896 pounds net English weight" (HCA 13/73); '''2.''' "whatsoever bills of ladeing are in the bagges"<ref>[[HCA 13/64 f.6v Annotate|HCA 13/64 f.6v]]</ref>
 '''Baggs''' ('''1.''' "having already received and laden aboard her one hundred baggs of wool and 400 baggs and upwards of gaulls"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.19r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.19r]]</ref>; '''2.''' "Ciprus cotton woolls are usually and ordinarily putt in very great baggs, which cannot be stowed without very great paines and difficulty")<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.19r Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.19r]]</ref>
-'''Bahaire''' ("this deponent  went in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' boate ashore, and there caused about a bahaire of pepper to be put on board the said Boate"<ref>[[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part Two|HCA 13/73 Part Two]]</ref> COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: in 1752, Wyndham Beawes noted "BAHAR, BAHAIRE, or BARRE, a weight used in Ternate, Mocha, in the Moluccas, and several places in the East Indies. It is of two kinds, the greater and the less. The greater is used for weighing pepper, cloves, ginger, nutmegs, &c., and is equal to 524lb. 9oz. avoirdupoise."  PRIMARY SOURCES: Wyndham Beawes, ''Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.'', 1752<ref>Wyndham Beawes, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OCNhAAAAcAAJ Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.]'', 1752</ref>
+'''Bahaire''' ("this deponent  went in the ''Bantam ffrigots'' boate ashore, and there caused about a bahaire of pepper to be put on board the said boate"<ref>[[MRP: HCA 13/73 Part Two|HCA 13/73 Part Two]]</ref> COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: in 1752, Wyndham Beawes noted "BAHAR, BAHAIRE, or BARRE, a weight used in Ternate, Mocha, in the Moluccas, and several places in the East Indies. It is of two kinds, the greater and the less. The greater is used for weighing pepper, cloves, ginger, nutmegs, &c., and is equal to 524lb. 9oz. avoirdupoise."  PRIMARY SOURCES: Wyndham Beawes, ''Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.'', 1752<ref>Wyndham Beawes, ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=OCNhAAAAcAAJ Lex mercatoria rediviva: or, The merchant's directory. Being a compleat guide to all men in business, etc.]'', 1752</ref>
 '''Bahaizes''' ("this deponent had sent out the foresaid 672 bahaizes of pepper on board the ''Bantam ffrigot'')<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.274r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.274r]]</ref>
 '''Balazares''' ("the foresaid six hundred seaventy two balarzes of pepper")<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.275v Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.275v]]</ref>
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 ====F====
-'''Fardle''' (= a bundle or pack} (''alt.'' fardell) ("one fardell or pack of white hundscot sayes"<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.8v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.8v]]</ref>; "one fardell or pack of this third marke No: 5. with 25 peeces of black hunscot sayes"<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.9r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.9r]]</ref>
+'''Fardle''' (= a bundle or pack) (''alt.'' fardell) ("one fardell or pack of white hundscot sayes"<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.8v Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.8v]]</ref>; "one fardell or pack of this third marke No: 5. with 25 peeces of black hunscot sayes"<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.9r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.9r]]</ref>
-'''Fathom''' (= six feet or 1.8288 meters) ('''1.''' [HAMBURG] "the Owners aforesaid did lade and putt on board ... the said shipp the ''fortune ''then lying within the City of Hamburgh two hundred and thirteene dozen of deale boards, twelve lasts of Tarre and eighteen fathom of wood for their owne account"<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.120v Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.120v]]</ref>; '''2.''' "the sayd vessell the ''Successe'' being then in about 11 fathom water", 1654<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.45r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.45r]]</ref>)
+'''Fathom''' (= six feet or 1.8288 meters) ('''1.''' [HAMBURG] "the owners aforesaid did lade and putt on board ... the said shipp the ''fortune ''then lying within the city of Hamburgh two hundred and thirteene dozen of deale boards, twelve lasts of tarre and eighteen fathom of wood for their owne account"<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.120v Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.120v]]</ref>; '''2.''' "the sayd vessell the ''Successe'' being then in about 11 fathom water", 1654<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.45r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.45r]]</ref>)
 '''Faugots'''
-'''Ferkins''' (''see'' firkin) ('''1.''' "two smale ferkins of beafe"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.639v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.639v]]</ref>; '''2.''' "seaven ferkins of butter belonging to this deponent and Company")<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.46r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.46r]]</ref>)
+'''Ferkins''' (''see'' firkin) ('''1.''' "two smale ferkins of beafe"<ref>[[HCA 13/71 f.639v Annotate|HCA 13/71 f.639v]]</ref>; '''2.''' "seaven ferkins of butter belonging to this deponent and company")<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.46r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.46r]]</ref>)
 '''Firkin''' (''alt.'' ferkin) (= small cask, originally a quarter of a barrel) ("three hundred firkins of butter" (HCA 13/69 no f.))
 '''Fraile''' (= basket made of rushes for carrying raisins, figs, etc., or the weight of fruit that fits in a frail) ("six basketts or frailes of figgs")<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.279r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.279r]]</ref>
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 '''Gallipoli measure'''
 '''Gallipoly measure'''
-'''Gallons''' ("hee beleeveth that he e hath drunke about five gallons of the ''Godliffs'' wine")<ref>[[HCA 13/76 f.25v Annotate|HCA 13/76 f.25v]]</ref>
+'''Gallons''' ("hee beleeveth that hee hath drunke about five gallons of the ''Godliffs'' wine")<ref>[[HCA 13/76 f.25v Annotate|HCA 13/76 f.25v]]</ref>
 '''Genoa weight'''
 '''Great trunks''' ("thirty quoyles of rope two great trunks, severall quarter caskes with [?XXXX] and oyle, and barrells of pitch and tarre, and some other things which were for the said Woods owne private trade and account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
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 '''Spanish yardes'''
 '''Spindles'''
-'''Sticks''' ("whither hee doth not know beleeve or hath heard that the said fower tonnes and ten sticks of logwood were sold by the said Jeremiah Sweetman or some other of the said English that arrived in the said Shippe unto some of the inhabitants of Barnstaple Biddeford or ?Northam before the same were arrested by authority of this Court" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no.))
+'''Sticks''' ("whither hee doth not know beleeve or hath heard that the said fower tonnes and ten sticks of logwood were sold by the said Jeremiah Sweetman or some other of the said English that arrived in the said shippe unto some of the inhabitants of Barnstaple Biddeford or ?Northam before the same were arrested by authority of this Court" (HCA 23/19 no fol. no.))
 '''Sydes''' ("some were sydes of leather tann'd which hee reckoned and accompted as hydes severally though in truth they were but half hydes" (HCA 13/129, no fol. no., Case: XXXX: Answer: XXXX: Date: XXXX))
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 '''Webbs'''
 '''Weighing neate'''
-'''Winchester measure'''
+'''Winchester measure''' ("pay unto Mr. Edward Cowes, Giles Silvester, and William Maskeline, or their assignes, at New London in New England, aboard such ship or vessell as
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 '''Casks''' ("had out of the sayd shipp from betwixt the middle deckes thereof two small Casks of oyle"<ref>[[HCA 13/68 f.7r Annotate|HCA 13/68 f.7r]]</ref>)
 '''Caskes''' ("there were saved out of the said shipp and were driven ashoare severall Caskes of butter, beefe, and porke belonging to the said Owners"<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.248r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.248r]]</ref>)
-'''Cedar chests'''
+'''Cedar chests''' (= chests made of cedar wood) ("Eight and twenty Cedar Chests, which contained and were filled (as this deponent verily beleeveth) with Tobaccoe"<ref>[[HCA 13/73 f.34r Annotate|HCA 13/73 f.34r]]</ref>)
 '''Chalder''' (= a Scots dry measure) (''in England alt.'' Chaldren, Chaldron) COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: Chalder is an obsolete dry measure for grain: "in Scotland 16 bolls or 64 firlots of corn, making nearly 12 quarters Winchester measure" (''OED'' 'Chalder', sense 1). It was also used to measure coal and lime, varying "from 32 to 64 imperial bushels" in Scotland. In London, it had the variants 'Chaldren' and 'Chaldron', and was "32 to 40 bushels, according as the measure was stroked or heaped" (''OED'', 'Chalder', sense 2; see also 'Chaldron', senses 2 and 3). SECONDARY SOURCES: 'Chaldron', Wikipedia entry.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldron 'Chaldron', Wikipedia entry, accesses 3 April 2017]</ref>
 '''Chaldren''' (''see'' Chalder) ("how many chaldren of the said coales did hee burne at Tangier, and how many chaldren did hee carry away in the said shipp from thence, and why did hee carry away the said coales, was it not bee cause hee wanted wood or other fowell for the said shipps use" (HCA 23/19, no f.))

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 '''Caskes''' ("there were saved out of the said shipp and were driven ashoare severall Caskes of butter, beefe, and porke belonging to the said Owners"<ref>[[HCA 13/70 f.248r Annotate|HCA 13/70 f.248r]]</ref>)
 '''Cedar chests'''
-'''Chalder'''
+'''Chalder''' (= a Scots dry measure) (''in England alt.'' Chaldren, Chaldron) COMMENTARY: <u>[https://twitter.com/pkmarmor Paula Marmor]</u>: Chalder is an obsolete dry measure for grain: "in Scotland 16 bolls or 64 firlots of corn, making nearly 12 quarters Winchester measure" (''OED'' 'Chalder', sense 1). It was also used to measure coal and lime, varying "from 32 to 64 imperial bushels" in Scotland. In London, it had the variants 'Chaldren' and 'Chaldron', and was "32 to 40 bushels, according as the measure was stroked or heaped" (''OED'', 'Chalder', sense 2; see also 'Chaldron', senses 2 and 3). SECONDARY SOURCES: 'Chaldron', Wikipedia entry.<ref>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaldron 'Chaldron', Wikipedia entry, accesses 3 April 2017]</ref>
-'''Chaldren''' ("how many chaldren of the said coales did hee burne at Tangier, and how many chaldren did hee carry away in the said shipp from thence, and why did hee carry away the said coales, was it not bee cause hee wanted wood or other fowell for the said shipps use" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
+'''Chaldren''' (''see'' Chalder) ("how many chaldren of the said coales did hee burne at Tangier, and how many chaldren did hee carry away in the said shipp from thence, and why did hee carry away the said coales, was it not bee cause hee wanted wood or other fowell for the said shipps use" (HCA 23/19, no f.))
-'''Chaldron'''
+'''Chaldron''' (''see'' Chalder) ("whilest the said ship was at Newcastle aforesaid there were Laden aboard her 80 Chaldron of Coales, five and twenty Chaldron of Grindstones"<ref>[[HCA 13/72 f.165r Annotate|HCA 13/72 f.165r]]</ref>)
 '''Chests''' (sugar; "chests of indico and druggs" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
 '''Clapboards'''