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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A38393	Englands golden treasury, or, The true vade mecum being the most necessary and useful pocket-companion ever published : for the use and advantage of gentlemen, tradesmen, and others : furnished with variety of tables of accompt, trade, merchandize, merchants goods, weights and measures of all kinds ... : choice precedents of bills, bonds, and all manner of useful writings, with many other things very useful, profitable and necessary.		1694 (1694)	Wing E2970; ESTC R21120	40,957	81

ʒ a Dram or Scruples ss semissis or half a Pound lb a Pound or 12 Ounces Averdupoize Weight weighs all manner of things that have waste As Drugs Grocery Rosin Wax Tar Pitch Tallow Hemp Flax Soap and all base Metals and Minerals As Lead Steel Iron Tin Copperas c. and for the computation of this Weight take the following Table           Drams         Ounces 16       Pounds 16 256   Quarters 28 448 7168 Hundreds 4 112 1792 28672 Tuns 20 80 2240 35840 573440 This Tun is 20 hundred weight in all things but Lead and there is allowed but 19 hundred and a half to the Tun or Fodder 112 pounds being allowed in most things to the hundred weight but in Allom Cinamon Nutmegs Pepper and Sugar there is accounted but 108 pounds Essex Cheese and Butter are weighed by half Stone or Clove being 8 pound and 32 of these Cloves are a Wey or 256 pounds Wool is sold by the Clove allowing but 7 pound to the Clove and 14 pound to the Stone 28 to the Tod and 182 pounds to the Wey 364 pound to the Sack and 4368 pound to the Last A Faggot of Steel is 120 pound a burthen of Gad Steel 180 56 pound of Butter or 60 pound of Soap makes a Firkin two Firkins the Barrel And further note though for many things the Stone is 14 pound yet for Flesh it is allowed but 8. As to Measures they are distinguished by three kinds Wet Dry and Long And first the Wet Measures have likewise their differences in some degree viz. Ale Measure has but 32 Gallons to the Barrel which is 2 Kilderkins 4 Firkins 64 Pottles 128 Quarts and 256 Pints and Vessels for Butter Fish Soap c. are made after this Measure Beer Measure has 36 Gallons to the Barrel which is 2 Kilderkins 4 Firkins 72 Pottles 144 Quarts 288 Pints Wine Measure the Hogshead is 63 Gallons the Pipe or But 2 Hogsheads or 126 Gallons the Tun 2 Pipes or Butts or 252 Gallons the Tierce is 42 Gallons Dry Measure is that sort by which Corn and the like are measured by and in this 2 Pints are a Quart 2 Quarts a Pottle 2 Pottles a Gallon 2 Gallons a Peck 4 Pecks a Bushel 8 Bushels a Quarter 5 Quarters a Wey and 2 Weys a Last or to take it another way the Last is 2 Wey 10 Quarters 80 Bushels 320 Pecks 640 Gallons 1280 Pottles 2560 Quarts and 5120 Pints Note That a Bushel of Salt-Water measure should contain 5 Pecks Measures of length thus the length of 3 Barly corns taken out of the middle of the Ear is accounted an Inch 12 Inches a Foot 3 Feet a Yard 5 Yards and half a Pole 40 Pole a Furlong 8 Furlongs a Mile Or thus either 8 Furlongs 320 Poles 1760 Yards 5280 Feet or 63360 Inches make a Mile Super-square measure makes out the square mile as in the following Table           Feet         Yards 9       Poles 30¼ 272¼     Roods 40 1210 10890   Acres 4 160 4840 43560 Mil. 640 2560 102400 3097600 27878400 So that by this Account 640 square Acres make the square mile and so of the rest as in the Table is plainly to be seen An Account of Time in Minutes Hours Days Weeks Months and Years with the denomination of the principal Feasts or Quarter-days with the days Shrove-Sunday Easter-Day Ascension-day Whit-Sunday and the moveable Terms will fall on for twelve Years to come Also the endings of the Terms THE measure of time ariseth from Minutes and of these 60 make an Hour 24 Hours a Natural Day 7 Days a Week 4 Weeks a Month 13 such Months 1 Day and 6 Hours a Year but this Year is commonly divided into 12 equal Calendar Months their number of Days many of them being unequal are set down in these Lines Thirty days has Fruit-bearing September Moist April hot June and cold November Short February Twenty eight alone The other Months each claim his Thirty one And February when her fourth Year's run Does gain a day then from the travelling Sun So that by this Rule February every Leap-Year having 29 days that year must consist of 366 days being a day more than others The Year is again divided into 4 Quarters viz. The Feast of the Annuntiation of the Virgin Mary called Lady-Day on the 25th of March the Feast of St. John Baptist called Midsummer-day on the 24th of June the Feast of Michael the Arch-Angel called Michaelmas-day on the 29th of September and the Feast of Christs Nativity called Christmas-day on the 25th of December and now by reason there are some days that vary and move falling higher or lower according to the changing of the Moon as Shrove-Sunday Ascension-day and Whit-Sunday it will be worth our pains to give an account how they shall exactly fall for twelve years to come Year Shrove-Su Easter-day Ascen day Whit-Su 1692 February 7 March 27 May 5 May 15 93 Febr. 26 April 16 May 25 June 4 94 Febr. 18 April 8 May 17 May 27 95 Febr. 3 March 24 May 2 May 12 96 Febr. 23 April 12 May 21 May 31 97 Febr. 14 April 4 May 13 May 23 98 March 6 April 2 June ● June 12 99 Febr. 19 April 9 May 18 May 28 1700 Febr. 11 March 13 May 9 May 19 01 March 2 April 20 May 29 June 8 02 Febr. 15 April 5 May 1● May 24 03 Febr. 7 March 28 May 6 May 16 And now because Easter and Trinity Term are likewise moveable it will be very proper to give the like years to come upon them of which we therefore present you a Table of their exact beginning and ending Year Easter-Term Trinity-Term Begins Ends Begins Ends 1692 April 29 May 9 May 27 June 15 93 May 3 May 29 June 16 July 5 94 April 25 May 21 June 8 June 24 95 April 10 May 6 May 24 June 12 96 April 29 May 25 June 12 July 1 97 April 21 May 17 June 4 June 23 98 May 11 June 6 June 24 July 13 99 April 26 May 22 June 9 June 28 1700 April 17 May 13 May 31 June 19 1 May 7 June 2 June 20 July 9 2 April 22 May 18 June 5 June 24 3 April 14 May 10 May 28 June 16 4 May 3 May 29 June 16 July 5 5 April 25 May 21 Ju● 8 July 27 6 April 10 May 6 May 28 June 16 7 April 30 May 26 June 13 July 2 8 April 21 May 17 June 4 June 23 Sundry rare Receipts and curious useful Experiments worthy of Notice To whiten Ivory TAke fine new slaked Lime and cover the Ivory with it when it is pretty hot and it will take away the yellowness or defect To Cement Glass or fine China Ware Take the glare of Eggs Egg-shells and quick Lime and beat them together to an extraordinary fineness adding a little of the Powder of Gum Sandrick and when it