Weights and Measures
Weights & Measures
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B
Bags (e.g. pepper) ("to be laded aboard her for the said Companies use and account, containing fiftie foure baggs of pepper w:ch weighed 3896 pounds net English weight" (HCA 13/73))
Bahaire ("this Depo:t went in the Bantam ffrigots Boate ashore, and there caused about a Bahaire of pepper to be put on board y:e said Boate" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Bahaizes ("this depo:t had sent out y:e foresaid 672 Bahaizes (sic) of Pepper on board the Bantam ffrigot (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Balazares ("the foresaid six hundred Seaventy two Balarzes of pepp" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Barrells (e.g. raisins; "17 barrells of starch"; "some barrells of sugar carryed frō y:e howses of y:e producent towards y:e waterside to be so laden")
Baskets (e.g. raisins; " two basketts of druggs" (HCA 13/73))
Boards (e.g. timber; "860 four foot boards)
Bundles (e.g. hemp; "68 bundles of hemp"; "bundles of rough hemp" (HCA 15/6 Box Two))
Butts (e.g. sherrie sack; "the true and lawfull Own:r of the said seaven and fortie butts of sack")
C
Caske ("28 Caske of Allom")
Cedar chests
Chests (sugar; "chests of Indico and Druggs" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Clapboards
Coyle (" thirty Coyles of Rope" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
H
Hogsheads (hhds; e.g. wines)
Hydes ("at the time arlate the Boatswaine of the Little Lewis did being did (sic), being demanded what hydes were recd aboard the said ship reply and say three hundred and thirty or thereaboutes but that since hee haveing prsed his booke doth find that there were laden aboard the sd shipp in all but three hundred twenty one some where of were whole Dryed hydes in hayre, and some were sydes of Leather tann'd w:ch hee reckoned and accompted as hydes severally though in truth they were but half hydes" (HCA 13/19))
K
Kintall (= Quintall) ("one hundred and twenty kintalls of ffish" (HCA 13/73))
L
Last ("he beleeveth that every last of y:e sd salmon conteined 12: barrels" (HCA 13/129))
M
Matt ("12 ?mattes of flaxe")
P
Pack ("five packs of linnen marked and numbred as in the margin" (HCA 13/68))
Parcel ("a parcell of flax to be brought unto Roscoe"; a pcell of tarre brought to this port of London in a shippe called the ffortune (HCA 13/125)))
Piggs ("piggs of silver") (HCA 23/19: the Mayfflower) ("Piggs of lead")
Pipes (of wine, e.g. Canary) ("10 pipes of sugar")
"some few ?Polacoes of Tobacco" (HCA 13/68)
Pipestaves
Pounds (e.g. Cocheneal)
Q
Quarter caskes ("severall Quarter Caskes of Wine and Oyle" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Quarters ("quarters of wheat")
Quintalls (= Kintalls) ("200 Quintalls of Brazill, Wood" (HCA 13/73)
Quoyle (("thirty Quoyles of Rope two Great Trunks, severall Quarter Caskes with XXX and Oyle, and barrells of Pitch and Tarre, and some other Things which were for y:e said Woods owne Private Trade & account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
R
Roll (e.g. tobacco)
S
Skinne baggs ("at Honduras tooke in and received aboard Indigo and druggs (as they were said to be) in chests and ?skinne baggs" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Small Barrell ("143 small Barr:lls. of Brandy att 11:li 19:s p Barrell an:d to in ster mony. 10:s ?6:d . p Barrell" (HCA 13/128)
T
Tonn ("> ½ Tonns of Rochell wines att 60:li the Tonn french mony and in English mony 4:li. 3:s. 4:d p tonn" (HCA 13/128)
Tonne
Tunn (" the said tonns of Tallow were worth the summe of 34:li y tonn and noe more" (HCA 13/125)
Trunks ("thirty Quoyles of Rope two Great Trunks, severall Quarter Caskes with XXX and Oyle, and barrells of Pitch and Tarre, and some other Things which were for y:e said Woods owne Private Trade & account" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
Trunkes
Trunckes ("Two trunckes" (HCA 13/73 Part Two))
W
Wainscotts
