Don't know - but I suggest you go to the main Question's board as people tend not to come here any more. Click high up on the "Q's to BWMA" link
Beranger
Re: what was the old name
September 6 2005, 2:21 PM
Kevin
Pecks and bushels were volumetric measures (usually of dry goods) - not actual weights.
However, there is a link between the name of the old unit used to refer to 16 stones (and sometimes to 14 stones) and the peck and bushel.
In 1430 an Act stated that cheese had to be sold by the "wey" of 32 cloves, every clove being 7 pounds according to the standard.
That equals 16 stone - or 224 lb
The "wey" was also known as the "weight"
Unfortunately, the name "wey" was also used for other imperial weights & measures.
Lead was weighed by a "wey" of 14 stones - or 196 lb
"Wey" was also used at one time to represent a weight of 728 lb (52 stones or 6.5 cwt - approx 1/3 ton
32 bushels was also known as a "wey" - that is equivalent to 256 gallons.
Steve
I'd forgotten about the following old Welsh case or I would have mentioned it before!
Hughes v Humphreys (1854) 18 JP 649, in which wheat was sold at a price per ‘hobbit’, a term used in Wales to express a quantity consisting of 4 pecks, each peck weighing 42 lb, ie a total of 168 lb. (No such thing as a hobbit measure.) Held this was a sale by weight and not by measure; and being in effect a sale of units of 168 lb was lawful.
Unfortunately, I have no idea whether Mr H was the TSO or the trader
Re: what was the old name
September 6 2005, 8:49 PM
Isn't wey what little miss muffet ate along with her curds while sitting on her tuffet?