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A35425	An essay towards the recovery of the Jewish measures & weights, comprehending their monies, by help of ancient standards, compared with ours of England useful also to state many of those of the Greeks and Romans, and the eastern nations / by Richard Cumberland ...	Cumberland, Richard, 1631-1718.	1686 (1686)	Wing C7581; ESTC R14108	50,390	164

his obliging Answer which came after my Book was finish'd I find that he hath confirmed it from the chief Arabian Lexicographer the Author of the Dictionary called Kamus who expresly affirms Ardob to be a great Egyptian Measure containing six Waibahs And he hath also confirmed my Judgment that Waibah or Oeba is the same with Epha by the Authority of Abu Walid the great Grammarian THE END BOOKS Printed for and Sold by RICHARD CHISWELL FOLIO SPeed's Maps and Geography of Great Britain and Ireland and of Foreign Parts Dr. Cave's Lives of the Primitive Fathers in 2 Vol. Dr. Cary's Chronological Account of Ancient Time Bp Wilkins real Character or Philosophical Language Hooker's Ecclesiastical Policy Guillim's Display of Heraldry with large Additions Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation of the Church of England in 2 Vol. Account of the Confessions and Prayers of the Murderers of Esquire Thynn Burlace's History of the Irish Rebellion Herodoti Historia Gr. Lat. cum variis Lect. 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Cubit that could be introduced and might justly challenge to be preferred before any later by its being setled and in possession already The Strength of this Reason may be understood more clearly by help of an Example which I remember in Herodotus his Euterpe There he tells us that in Egypt their setled Militia consisted of these two sorts of Souldiers who were esteemed above all Tradesmen the Hermotybie and the Calasiries The full number of the latter of these was 250000 Men who in courses were their Kings Guards and every one of them had to maintain him and his Family Land free from Taxes whose Area or Superficial Content was 12 Arourae each Aroura being 100 Cubits on every side which imports that it was the Square of an 100 Cubits Wherefore to know how much Land this was in our Measure I took the Cairo Cubit an hundred times which is 182.4 in our foot-measure as may be inferred from Mr. Greaves his Table and by squaring this Number I find an Aroura to be 33269.76 Square Feet English which is considerably less than one English Acre for that contains 43560 Square Feet Hence it will follow that 12 Arourae will amount to 399237.12 Square Feet And this divided by the Feet of an English Acre will quote 9.165 which demonstrates that the Land of each Calasyry amounted to 9 English Acres and .165 Millessimals of an Acre or 1 tenth part of an Acre 6 Cents c. above the 9 intire Acres And it 's clear that so much good Land lying where he places it might maintain any of them with his Family very well But if this Cubit were changed whereby so many thousand Estates were set out it must needs make a great change in all these Estates consisting of so much Land set out by this first number of Cubits which are now supposed to be all altered and great disorder must be expected among these Men in whom the strength of the Kingdom chiefly lay For if a longer Cubit were taken those of them that were first served would have more Land in each Aroura but then there would be none left for those that should come to be served last or else they must trespass upon the Land that did not belong to the Militia which would beget Discontent and Sedition if they took a less Cubit this would lessen all the Souldiers Estates more than any Man unskill'd in Geometry can expect and would beget a Mutiny for want of a sufficient Maintenance for the Souldiers and their Families as may appear by this Instance Suppose that instead of the Cairo-Cubit the Arourae of the Calasyries should be set out by the Roman-Cubit which is not quite 4 Inches shorter amounting in our English Foot-measure to 1.45 as may be inferred from Mr. Greaves his Table An hundred such Cubits are 145 Feet and the Square thereof making an Aroura would be 21025 square Feet and 12 such Arourae would be 252300 square Feet which amount to little above 5 Acres and three quarters or Roods Whereby its evident that much above a third part of every Souldier's Estate would be taken away whence nothing less than great Distress in all their Families and Rebellion against their Governors must be expected Concerning the Antiquity of these Arourae I cannot find when they were introduced into Egypt For though Herodotus do not mention them till he speaks of Apries King of Egypt whom Chronologers agree to be that Pharaoh who is called Hophra in our Bibles yet he supposes them setled on the Military Men before his Time and confines them to twelve of those Nomi which are Shires or Praefectures in Egypt of which Sesostris the most Martial King of Egypt was the Author or Founder which makes me conjecture that he setled these Arourae on the Souldiers as well as that Division of the whole Land into 36 Nomi If this be admitted they were much elder than Moses his Time according to the first Book of Eusebius his Canon Chronicus in Graec. where he from Africanus and he out of Manetho the Egyptian Priest places Sesostris in the twelfth Dynasti and afterwards places Moses in the eighteenth Yet they will be of Antiquity sufficient to my Concern if Sesostris setled them about Moses's Time to which the Learned Bishop Vsher makes Sesostris contemporary But however this be stated when I compare 100 Cubits the side of an Egyptian Arourae with 1000 Cubits the side of the Side of the Levites Glebe-land in their Suburbs and observe the decuple proportion exactly kept between them I cannot but think both these Measures were used in the same Age and that the way of setting out Land in the Jewish and Egyptian Countries was near of Kin to each other which serves my main End although it be more than I was obliged to prove in this Paragraph where I undertake only to evince that the Cubit in Egypt could not easily be altered without making great disturbance or making new Measures to all their Estates hereby determined which I suppose I have prov'd Besides if it had been altered it 's reasonable to presume it must be by some of the great Empires who conquer'd Egypt who would have introduced their own Cubit but that was not done for the Babylonian Cubit of five Palms is shorter that of six Palms the same with this as we shall hereafter shew and so needed make no alteration The Greek and Roman Cubits are known to be shorter also than this and the Turks under whom they now are have not introduced their Pike corrupted of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Cubit for whereas there are two Standard-Pikes at Constantinople they are both much longer than this now at Cairo as may be seen in Mr. Greaves Table of Measures compared with the Roman English Foot I shall add as over-weight to conclude this first Assertion a probable Argument founded upon this probable Principle that the Ancient Architects being left to their liberty of designing the outmost Lines of a stately Building would chuse to determine them by some round even Number of the most known Measure whereby they wrought So God himself design'd the Ark's Dimensions in such numbers of Cubits its length 300 its breadth 50 its height 20 all round even numbers the like even numbers we find chosen in the measures of the Temple 2 Chron. 3.3 length 60 breadth 20 Cubits and the Oracle a perfect Cube of 20 Cubits in length breadth and height 1 Kings 6.20 So the Learned Greaves found the Marble Stones of the Pavement of the most accurately built Pantheon at Rome the larger of them precisely three Roman Feet the less of them just half so much which shews they took care to determine them precisely by their most known Measure the Foot or its most obvious part the half Foot and though the Number be not even yet constant respect is had to even Feet or equal division into Halves Such respect therefore I hoped to find the old Egyptians to have had to their