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Weights and measures - Great Britain
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The assize of bread; and other assizes of weights and measures, which, by the laws of this realm, are commanded to be observ'd and kept by all bakers, brewers, innholders, victualers, vintners, butchers, &c. Whereunto is added, Several Good and Useful Orders in making and retailing all sorts of Bread to His Majesty's Subjects. Agreeing with all the Laws, Statutes, and Customs of England. Newly Corrected and Enlarg'd from Twelve-Pence the Quarter of Wheat to Three-Pound Six-Pence the Quarter, according to the Rise and Fall of the Markets, by Six-Pence per Quarter. Together with the Assize settled by Act of Parliament in the 8th Year of the Reign of our late Gracious Sovereign Qu. Anne, of Blessed Memory. Also, The Ordering the Clerk of the Market's Office, and for Reformation of false Weights and Measures, according to the several Statutes in that behalf made.
Date: 1714- Books
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A report from the Committee, appointed (upon the 1st day of December 1758) to enquire into the original standards of weights and measures in this kingdom, and to consider the laws relating thereto. With the proceedings of the House thereupon. Published by order of the House of Commons.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons.Date: MDCCLIX. [1759]- Books
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The laws respecting parish matters. Containing the several offices and duties of churchwardens, overseers of the poor, constables, watchmen, and Other Parish Officers. The Laws Concerning Rates and Assessments, Settlements and Removals of the Poor, and of the Poor in General. The Laws relating to Repairs of Highways, Weights and Measures, &c. The whole laid down in a plain and easy Manner: in which all technical Terms of Law are familiarly explained. As collected and digested from the several reports, and other books of authority, Up to the Present Time. Also an appendix of precedents; Comprising a great Variety of the most approved Forms of all such Instruments as most frequently occur in the Management of Parish Affairs. The second edition, improved and much enlarged. By the author of The laws of landlord and tenant, Law of Wills, Laws of Masters and Servants, &c.
Bird, James Barry.Date: [1799]- Books
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The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with The Explanation of divers Lines therein heretofore measur'd. By Mr. John Greaves. Astronomy Professor at Oxford. As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in Answer to certain Letters, &c.
Date: MDCCXLV. [1745]- Books
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Farther considerations and conjectures, relative to an original universal standard for measure and weight, but more particularly as to the English standard.
Reynardson, Samuel.Date: Printed in the Year MDCCLXV. [1765]