Artachthos or A new booke declaring the assise or weight of bread not onely by troy weight, according to the law, but by avoirdupois weight the common weight of England at what price soever, not exceeding five pound the quarter of wheate, shall be sold in the market and conteining divers orders and articles made and set forth by the right honourable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread lawfull and vendible, within this realme ... whereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine introduction to the art of numeration ... And lastly hereunto is added. A true relation or collection of the most remarkeable dearths and famines which have happened in England since the comming in of William the Conquerour, as also the rising and falling of the price of wheate and other graine, with the severall occasions thereof.

Title

Artachthos or A new booke declaring the assise or weight of bread not onely by troy weight, according to the law, but by avoirdupois weight the common weight of England at what price soever, not exceeding five pound the quarter of wheate, shall be sold in the market and conteining divers orders and articles made and set forth by the right honourable the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, for the making and assising of all sorts of bread lawfull and vendible, within this realme ... whereunto is prefixed a briefe and plaine introduction to the art of numeration ... And lastly hereunto is added. A true relation or collection of the most remarkeable dearths and famines which have happened in England since the comming in of William the Conquerour, as also the rising and falling of the price of wheate and other graine, with the severall occasions thereof.

Author

Penkethman, John.

Publication

London :: Printed by E[dward] G[riffine] and R. B[ishop] and are to be sold [at ye stationers shops, or at ye chamber of Iohn Penkethman .. in Simonds Inn in Chancerie lane] according to the direction in the frontispice,

1638.

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Contents

• The names of the Lords and others of his Majesties most honourable privie Councell, by whose speciall order at the Board this Booke was li∣cenced to be printed.
• The Explanation of the Frontispice.
• title page
• THE Composers Premonition to the unlearned Reader.
  • Yet once againe.
• The Booke to his future Master.
• title page
• To The Right Honourable Sir RICHARD FEN Knight, Lord Major of the Citie of London, And to the Right VVorshipfull the Sheriffes and Aldermen of the same Citie.
• A Briefe and Plaine Introdu∣ction to the Art of Nu∣meration.
  • The Table of Numbers dige∣sted in foure Columnes.
• The Composers Preface.
• Of Troy and Avoirdupois Weights.
  • The Weight of the Quantities of Meale to be contei∣ned in the severall Measures concave of England.
  • A threefold Table shewing the Coe∣quality of Troy, Avoirdupois and Sterling weights.
  • The use of this Table is explained by these two Examples.
• THE Description and Vse of The Table of Assise or Weight of Bread.
  • Vnder the word Troy.
  • Vnder the word Avoirdupois.
  • Vnder the words Troy and Avoirdupois.
  • Now for the Vse of this Table.
    • For Example.
• How the Baker ought to be punish∣ed for breaking his Assize.
  • 1 By the Statute of the Assize of Bread and Ale 51. An. H. 3. (amongst other things) it was enacted.
  • 2 By the Statute of Bakers and Brewers, and other vi∣ctuallers. 31. Anno E. 1. it was (amongst other things) enacted.
  • 3 By the Orders of the Lords of his Majesties most ho∣nourable privie councell hereunto annexed.
    • An Order for musty Meale.
    • Here followeth what sorts of Bread have beene made in their Trials.
• Orders and Articles, made and set forth, by the right ho∣nourable the Lords, and others of his Majesties most honourable Privie Councell, as well for the making and as∣sizing of all sorts of Bread lawfull and vendible within this Realme, as for the reforming of divers disor∣ders and abuses used, and com∣mitted by sundry persons therein.
• A True Relation or Collection of the most remarkable Dearths and Famines, which have happened within this Realme since the comming in of William the Conquerour. As also The rising and falling of the price of Wheat and other Graine, from time to time, with the severall occasions thereof, briefly set downe according to the English Chronicle (a Book of much worth) the last Edition whereof was set forth with Additions by Edmond How Gent. in Anno 1631.
  • An. Dom. 1069.
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  • section
• Authoris Epilogismus.
• The Composer of this Worke, being the Author of the Prime Tables of Interest-Money, and Purchase at 8 per Cent. To all those whom it may concerne, respective Greeting.
• Errors to be reformed in some of the BOOKES.
  • In the Vse of the Table of Assise.
  • In the Table of Assise.