 | Anthony Birks, John Birks - Arithmetic - 1766 - 640 pages
...weight, is A fother, or fodder, of lead, 191. cwt. LI Q_U ID MEASURE. As the original of Troy weight was a corn of wheat taken out of the middle of the ear, and being well dried, 32 were to make a pennyweight ; fo eight pound Troy weigîit of wheat (or 61440 grains)... | |
 | Thomas Sadler - Arithmetic - 1773 - 524 pages
...Syftem of Arithmetic page 74, fays " That the Ori' ginal of all Weights in England was a Corn of 1 Wheat, taken out of the middle of the Ear and ' well dried ; of which 32 made one Penny Weight, ' inftead of which, they made afterwards another ' Divifion of the -Pennyweight mto 24... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1852 - 258 pages
...weight of a seed of wheat-eorn. By a statute of Edward III. (AD 1266,) it was enaeted that 32 grains of wheat taken out of the middle of the ear and well dried, should weigh a pennyweight, of whieh 20 should make an ounee, of whieh 12 should make a pound. The... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 522 pages
...coins so called. By a statute passed in the reign of Edward III. (1266), it was enacted that 32 grains of wheat taken out of the middle of the ear, and well dried, should weigh a pennyweight, of which 20 should make au ounce, of which 12 should make a pound. Consequently... | |
 | Charles Knight - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1867 - 526 pages
...coins so called. By a statute passed in the reign of Edward III. (126G), it was enacted that 32 grains of wheat taken out of the middle of the ear, and well dried, should weigh a pennyweight, of which 20 should make an ounce, of which 18 should make a pound. Consequently... | |
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III. (1266), it was enacted that 32 grains of wheat taken out of the middle of the ear, and well dried, should weigh a pennyweight, of which 20 should make au ounce, of which 12 should make a pound. 