Rules for assizing of bread viz. by troy-weight, or sterling, and by avoirdupoids weights : together with the rule of coequality of both weights, and the assize by a standard-weight for white, wheaten, and household loaves, assized by a certain price, rising and lowering, as the price of wheat rises and falls in the market : all three calculated exactly according to the statute Assiza panis 51.H.3. now in force in Ireland.

Title

Rules for assizing of bread viz. by troy-weight, or sterling, and by avoirdupoids weights : together with the rule of coequality of both weights, and the assize by a standard-weight for white, wheaten, and household loaves, assized by a certain price, rising and lowering, as the price of wheat rises and falls in the market : all three calculated exactly according to the statute Assiza panis 51.H.3. now in force in Ireland.

Author

Blackhall, G.

Publication

Dublin :: Printed by Joseph Ray ..., and are to be sold at his shop ...,

1699.

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Subject terms

Bread industry -- Ireland -- 17th century.

Bread industry -- Weights and measures.

Weights and measures -- Law and legislation.

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"Rules for assizing of bread viz. by troy-weight, or sterling, and by avoirdupoids weights : together with the rule of coequality of both weights, and the assize by a standard-weight for white, wheaten, and household loaves, assized by a certain price, rising and lowering, as the price of wheat rises and falls in the market : all three calculated exactly according to the statute Assiza panis 51.H.3. now in force in Ireland." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28293.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE, THE LORD MAYOR, RECORDER, ALDERMEN, SHERIFFS, Commons and Citizens, OF THE CITY of DUBLIN.
• To the Impartial Reader,
• Some EXCEPTIONS Against a TRYAL, Demanded by the BAKERS.
• RULES FOR THE ASSIZE of BREAD; By Sterling-Money, and Troy-Weights. According to the Statute Assiza Panis. 51 H. 3.
• RULES FOR THE ASSIZE of BREAD; By Avoir-du-poids-Weights. Calculated by the Coequality with Troy-Weights, and Sterling Money, to answer the just Weight of Bread, Established by the Statute Assiza Panis, 51 H. 3.
• RULES FOR ASSIZING OF White, Wheaten, and Houshold-Bread; BY A Certain Standard Weight, for each kind of LOAVES. Assized in Money at a certain Price, according as the Rate of Corn Rises and Falls in the Market. Calculated exactly, and made Coequal with the Weights, and Prices, prescribed by the Statute Assiza Panis, 51. H. 3.
• AN ANSWER TO A PETITION of the Corporation of BAKERS. Presented to the LORD MAYOR, SHERIFFS, COMMONS, and CITIZENS, of the City of Dublin, at Easter Assembly, 1699.