Menu
1
150
300
450
600
750

Essays and addresses

Also it shall be the same with weights as with measures.

J This is the origin of the "Wine Measure," the "Ale or Beer Measure," the "Dry Measure" and the "Cloth Measure," which those of my age will remember learning at school.

The "quarter" is eight bushels, still used in the English corn market, although on this Conti- nent we always use the bushel.

Bussets were an inferior kind of cloth dyed a dull reddish hue with bark (not unlike the "butternut" of American and Canadian pioneers I have worn it) used generally by monks and rustics: halberjects, haubergets, haubergets or habergits, a very thick and coarse mixed English cloth of various colors (not unlike our coarse tweeds) the precise meaning does not seem to be clear.

See Murrays New English Dictionary.