Tables of Weights and Measures.
Shilling Tables
_s. l. s_.
20 are 1 0
30 ---- 1 10
40 ---- 2 0
50 ---- 2 10
60 ---- 3 0
70 ---- 3 10
80 ---- 4 0
90 ---- 4 10
100 are 5 0
110 --- 5 10
120 --- 6 0
130 --- 6 10
140 --- 7 0
150 --- 7 10
160 --- 8 0
170 --- 8 10
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Practice Tables.
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Of a Pound.
_s. d_.
10 0 are half
6 8 --- third
5 0 --- fourth
4 0 --- fifth
3 4 --- sixth
2 6 --- eighth
1 8 --- twelfth
1 0 --- twentieth
Of a shilling.
6_d_. are half
4 --- third
3 --- fourth
2 --- sixth
1 --- twelfth
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Time.
60 seconds 1 minute
60 minutes 1 hour
24 hours 1 day
7 days 1 week
4 weeks 1 lunar month
12 cal. mon. 1 year
13 lunar months, 1 day, 6 hours, or 365 days, 6 hours, 1 year.
Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November;
All the rest have thirty-one,
Save February, which alone
Hath twenty-eigth, except Leap year,
And twenty-nine is then its share.
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Troy Weight.
24 grains 1 pennywt.
20 pennywhts. 1 ounce
12 ounces 1 pound
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Avoirdupoise Weight.
16 drams 1 ounce
16 ounces 1 pound
28 pounds 1 quarter
4 quarters 1 hund. wt.
20 hund. wt. 1 ton
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Apothecaries Weight.
20 grains 1 scruple
3 scruples 1 dram
8 drams 1 ounce
12 ounces 1 pound
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Wool Weight.
7 pounds 1 clove
2 cloves 1 stone
2 stones 1 tod
6½ tods 1 wey
2 weys 1 sack
12 sacks 1 last
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Wine Measure.
2 pints 1 quart
4 quarts 1 gallon
10 gallons 1 ank. brandy
42 gallons 1 tierce
63 gallons 1 hogshead
84 gallons 1 puncheon
2 hogsheads 1 pipe
2 pipes 1 ton
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Ale and Beer Measure.
2 pints 1 quart
4 quarts 1 gallon
8 gallons 1 firkin of ale
9 gallons 1 firk. of beer
2 firkins 1 kilderkin
2 kilderkins 1 barrel
14 barrel 1 hogshead
2 barrels 1 puncheon
3 barrels 1 butt
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Coal Measure.
4 pecks 1 bushel
9 bushels 1 vat or strike
3 bushels 1 sack
12 sacks 1 chaldron
91 chaldron 1 score
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Dry Measure.
2 pints 1 quart
2 quarts 1 pottle
2 pottles 1 gallon
2 gallons 1 peck
4 pecks 1 bushel
2 bushels 1 strike
5 bushels 1 sack flour
8 bushels 1 quarter
5 quarters 1 wey or load
5 pecks 1 bushl. water measure
4 bushels 1 coom
10 cooms 1 wey
2 weys 1 last corn
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Solid or Cubic Measure.
1728 inches 1 foot
27 feet 1 yard or load
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Long Measure.
3 barleycorns 1 inch
12 inches 1 foot
3 feet 1 yard
6 feet 1 fathom
5½ yards 1 pole or rod
40 poles 1 furlong
8 furlongs 1 mile
3 miles 1 league
20 leagues 1 degree
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Cloth Measure.
24 inches 1 nail
4 nails 1 quarter
4 quarters 1 yard
5 quarters 1 English ell
3 quarters 1 Flemish ell
6 quarters 1 French ell
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Land or Square Measure.
144 inches 1 foot
9 feet 1 yard
30¾ yards 1 pole
40 poles 1 rood
4 roods 1 acre
640 acres 1 mile
This includes length and breadth.
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Hay.
36 pounds 1 truss of straw
56 pounds 1 do. of old hay
60 pounds 1 do. of new hey
36 trusses 1 load
MONEY.
Two farthings one halfpenny make,
A penny four of such will take;
And to allow I am most willing
That twelve pence always make a shilling;
And that five shillings make a crown,
Twenty a sovereign, the same as pound.
Some have no cash, some have to spare--
Some who have wealth for none will care.
Some through misfortune's hand brought low,
Their money gone, are filled with woe,
But I know better than to grieve;
If I have none I will not thieve;
I'll be content whate'er's my lot,
Nor for misfortunes care a groat.
There is a Providence whose care
And sovereign love I crave to share;
His love is gold without alloy;
Those who possess't have endless joy.
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