 | United States. Department of State, John Quincy Adams - Weights and measures - 1821 - 276 pages
..." by the consent of the whole realm of Eng" land, the measure of the king was made; that is to say: that an " English penny, called a sterling round, and without any clipping, "shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and " twenty-pence do make an ounce, and... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1822 - 488 pages
..." by the consent of the whole realm of England, the measure of the king was made ; that is to say, that an English penny, called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty -two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and twentypence do make an ounce, and... | |
 | Nathan Dane - Law - 1824 - 726 pages
...England we may begin with the statute of the year 1266, 51st Hen. HI. By this act it was enacted, " that an English penny called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and twenty pence do make an ounce, and... | |
 | Philadelphia College of Pharmacy - Pharmacy - 1831 - 360 pages
...that by the consent of the whole realm of England, the measure of the king was made; that is to say, that an English penny, called a sterling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear; and twenty pence do make an ounce, and... | |
 | American Philosophical Society - Anthropology - 1887 - 494 pages
...common weight into the troy,* under the name of the weight of assize ; a statute 51. Henry IiI enacted "that an English penny called a sterling round, and without any clipping, shall weigh 32 grains of wheat, from the middle of the ear, and 20 pence to make an ounce, 12 ounces... | |
 | Literary and Historical Society of Quebec - Canada - 1863 - 162 pages
...By the consent of the whole realm of England, the " measure of the King was made ; that is to say ; that " an English penny called a sterling round, and without " any clipping, shall weigh 32 wheat corns in the midst " of the ear, and 20 pence do make an ounce, and twelve " ounces... | |
 | Charles Hutton Dowling - 1864 - 222 pages
...the consent of the whole realm of England, the measure of our Lord the King was made, that is to say, that an English penny, called a sterling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh 32 wheatcorns in the midst of the ear ; and 20 pence do make an ounce, and 12 ounces a... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 538 pages
...Besides, at that time, the units of commercial weight were also units of coin weight It is related that " an English penny, called a sterling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheatcorns in the midst of the ear. anil twenty pence do make tin ounce, and... | |
 | Robert Thorne - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 502 pages
...Besides, at that time, the units of commercial weight were also units of coin weight. It is related that "an English penny, called a sterling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheatcorns in the midst of the ear, and twenty pence do make an ounce, and twelve... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1889 - 206 pages
...Besides, at that time, the units of commercial weight were also units of coin weight It is related that "an English penny, called a sterling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh thirty-two wheat-corns in the midst of the ear, and twenty-penco do make an ounce, and... | |
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... do make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine do make a London bushel, which is the eighth part of a quarter. 
