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<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>By the Queene.</HI> &leaf; A Proclamation for Waightes publi&s;hed by the Queenes Maie&s;ties commaundement.</HEAD>
<P>_FOra&s;much as (by Gods Lawes and mans lawes) there hath beene and ought to be in all places, true, iu&s;t, and certaine Waightes and Mea&s;ures, and the &s;ame al&s;o (by the lawes of this Realme) to be e&s;tabli&s;hed, publi&s;hed, and made knowen to all people, that euery one may take the benefit and v&s;e there|of: Our Soueraigne Lady the Queene being informed, that the greate&s;t part of her louing Subiectes of this Realme of England, and Wales, be igno|rant of contentes, differences, and true knowledge and v&s;es of the Waightes of the &s;ame Realme, and that the Waightes commonly v&s;ed within the Realme be vncertaine, and varying one from an other, to the great &s;launder of the &s;ame, and the deceiuing of many doth Buyers and Sellers: doth by the adui&s;e a&s;well of her priuy Councell, as of her Coun&s;ell learned in the L<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">wes, &amp; other men of perfect &s;kill and vnder&s;tanding in Waights, giue all her louing Subiects hereby to vnder&s;tand, that by the Statutes and Ordinances of the Realme, there hath bene, is, and ought to be lawfully in v&s;e with|in the &s;ame, one Waight, commonly called the Troy Waight, according to the auncient Lawes, Treatize, and Ordinance, for compo&s;ing of Waights, and Mea&s;ures, and is &amp; ought to be v&s;ed onely for the weying of Golde, &s;iluer, Bread and Electuaries, and ought to be in all parts of the Realme of one and the &s;ame content. And that there is and ought to be one other Waight likewi&s;e in v&s;e, commonly called the <HI>Auoir depoiz</HI> Waight, and is to be v&s;ed for the weying of Spices, and all other things vendible by Waights, and ought al&s;o to be of one and the &s;ame content in all parts of the Realme: which Waights a&s;well of Troy, as of <HI>Auoir depoiz,</HI> alwayes ought to be according to certaine Standerds of Waights thereof made and remaining in the Exchequer at We&s;tmin&s;ter, heretofore commonly called the Kings &s;tanderd of Waights of his E&s;che|quer. And further, that vpon information giuen diuers yeres pa&s;t to the Lord Trea&s;ourer, vnder Trea&s;ourer, and Barons of her Maie&s;ties &s;ayd Exchequer, of the &s;aid vncertainty and variance of Waights, and by intermi&s;&s;ion of long time, no iu&s;t and perfect &s;tanderds being then extant and remaining in the &s;ayd Exchequer, to &s;ize &amp; reforme all other Waights of the Realme, but &s;uch as were there &s;ound extant did vary one from an other: They cau&s;ed two &s;euerall Iuries of Aldermen, and other &s;ub&s;tantiall Merchants and Gold&s;miths of the City of London, to come before them in the &s;ayd Court of Exchequer, and charged them vpon their othes, among&s;t other things, to examine and try the &s;ayd &s;tanderdes, and certayne other Waights deliuered vnto them from &s;undry Cities and other places of the Realme, and by tho&s;e Waights, and by other meanes, to cau&s;e one certaine, iu&s;t, and true &s;tanderd of all &s;ortes of Waights within the Realme to be made and &s;ized, and to pre&s;ent the &s;ame to the &s;ayd Lord Trea&s;ourer, vnder Trea&s;ourer, and Barons in the &s;ayd Court, there to remayne &amp; be kept, as the Queenes iu&s;t and true &s;tanderd of the &s;ayd Exchequer of Waights, to examine, try, &amp; &s;ize all other Waights of the Realme by from time to time as occa&s;ion &s;hould require, which Iuries pre&s;ented to the &s;ayd Lord Trea&s;ourer, vnder Trea&s;ourer, and Barons, &s;euerall Bra&s;&s;e Piles of the Troy Waight, and certayne Bell Waights, and round flat Waights of the <HI>Auoir depoiz</HI> Waights to be &s;tanderds of the &s;ayd &s;euerall Waightes, and al&s;o &s;euerall Bores conteining in them &s;mall Poizes and Waights of the &s;ayd Troye Waight: and that there|vpon her Maie&s;tie after long deliberation, hath by the adui&s;e of her priuie Coun&s;ell, ordeined and e&s;tabli&s;hed &s;uch of the &s;aid Piles &amp; Waightes as be hereunder mentioned, to be her iu&s;t and true &s;tanderdes of Waightes of her Exchequer, for the &s;izing, examining and trying of all other Waights by, for that the &s;ame be found to be agreeing with the iu&s;t &amp; true Waightes that haue had long continuance and v&s;e in this Realme, and with the &s;tanderds v&s;ed both for moneys of Plate, of Siluer and Golde, and other things &s;old by Waight.</P>
<P>And further, her Maie&s;tie hath giuen order and commaundement by her warrant &s;igned with her hand and vnder her priuy Seale, to the Lord Trea&s;ourer, vnder Trea&s;orer &amp; Ba|rons of the Exchequer, forthwith to cau&s;e to be made, &s;ized, and approoued by the &s;ayd &s;tanderds now brought into the Exchequer, &amp; there e&s;tabli&s;hed for the true &s;tanderds of weights, &s;o many other like &s;tanderds of bra&s;&s;e as &s;hall &s;u&s;tice for her Maie&s;ties Mint, &amp; for her Clerke of the Market, and for euery Citie and Shire towne within the Dominion of Wales, and al&s;o for euery City, Borough&punc; Towne and place limitted by the Statute made in the xi. yere of the raigne of the late King of famous memory King Henry the vii. to haue and keepe &s;tan|derds of Waigtes, according to the meaning of that Statute, and for &s;uch other as &s;hall make &s;uite for the hauing of any of the &s;ayd Waightes, and al&s;o to cau&s;e euery of the &s;ayd Stan|derds of Troy Waightes of one halle quarter of a pounde or more, to be printed and marked with
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<PB REF="2" MS="y">kindes of Waightes, and all of them with letters and Stampes denoting the true contents. Her Maie&s;ties will and plea&s;ure is therefore, that the Maiors, Bailiffes, and other head Of|ficers of euery of the &s;aid Cities, Boroughes, Townes and places, before the fea&s;t of S. Iohn Bapti&s;t next comming, at the common charge of the &s;ame place, &s;hal &s;end &s;ome &s;ufficient per|&s;on to the &s;aide Exchequer, authori&s;ed to receiue &s;uch Standerds as &s;halbe deliuered vnto him by the order of the &s;aid Court, for the &s;aid Citie, Borough, Towne, or place, and to pay &s;uch rea&s;onable price for the &s;ame, as vpon true valuation of the &s;ame by the &s;aid Court &s;halbe rated: which Standerds euery of the &s;aid Maiors, Bailiffes, or other head Officers to whome it &s;hall appertaine, &s;hall &s;afely keepe or cau&s;e to be kept in the &s;ame, in &s;ome &s;ure and conuenient place of the &s;ame Citie, Borough, or Towne, and by them &s;hall make or &s;ize, and cau&s;e to be made and &s;ized other common Waights for the v&s;e of all maner of people in the &s;ame Citie, Towne or place, that &s;hall haue cau&s;e to v&s;e tho&s;e Waightes. And &s;hall al&s;o &s;igne and print with like let|ters like waightes of Bra&s;&s;e, Copper, Leade, Tinne, or other competent &s;tuffe, vnto euery of the Queenes Subiectes duely requiring the &s;ame, taking &s;uch fees for the doing thereof, as by the Statute made in the vii. yeere of the &s;aide late King Henry the vii. is allowed, and no more, viz. of euery hundred waight one penie, of euery halfe hundred waight, one halfe penie, and of euery waight vnder, one farthing, and not aboue. And euery of the &s;aid Maiors, Bailiffes, and other head Officers &s;hall further doe and cau&s;e to be done all &s;uch other Act and acts, thing and things for the prouiding, hauing, and v&s;ing of the &s;aide Standerds and waightes agreeing with the &s;ame, and al&s;o true Balances and Scales both common and other, as bee li|mitted and appointed to their or any of their authoritie, by the &s;aid Statute made in the xi. yeere of the late King Henry the vii. or any other Statute or ordinance what&s;oeuer, &s;o as all the waights throughout the Realme may be reformed and made according to the &s;aide Standerd of the Exchequer, as by the Statute in &s;uch ca&s;e prouided is required.</P>
<P>And her Maie&s;tie further commaundeth and ordeineth, that no per&s;on or per&s;ons &s;hall from the fea&s;t of Michaelmas next comming, v&s;e in &s;elling, buying, or weighing of any thing, any o|ther waight or waights, but &s;uch as &s;halbe made or &s;ized, and re&s;pectiuely agreeing to and with the &s;aid Standerds, and printed and marked with &s;uch markes and letters, as is before limi|ted, neither &s;hal v&s;e any Troy waight &s;o made, &s;ized, marked and printed, but onely for waighing of Bread, Gold, Siluer, and Electuaries, and for no other thing: nor the &s;aid
<HI>Auoir depoiz</HI> Waight for the waighing of any Gold, Siluer, Bread, or Electuaries, but of Spices, Woolles, Leade, and all other things vendible by Waightes, vpon paine to be apprehended and com|mitted to pri&s;on, fined and puni&s;hed, as contriuers and v&s;ers of fal&s;e Waights, according to the Statute made in the ix. pere of Hen. v. and other Statutes in that ca&s;e made and prouided.</P>
<P>And that this Proclamation, for the better in&s;tructing of her Maie&s;ties Subiects, &s;hal before the twelfth day of Ianuary nowe next comming, be proclaimed in euery Market Towne through the Realme, and bee hanged vp and fa&s;tened in a Table in the Market place by an Officer, where it may hang drie, to continue, and be &s;eene and read by any that will. And fur|ther, that it &s;halbe read in euery Church, before the fea&s;t of the Purification of our Lady next, in a time and &s;pace betweene the beginning and end of Common prayer, vpon &s;ome Sunday or Holy day, by the Mini&s;ter or Clarke of the Church, and &s;o from thenceforth, once at euery fea&s;t of the Annunciation of our Lady, and once at euery fea&s;t of S. Michael Tharchangel, by the &s;pace of foure yeeres next comming, and be al&s;o hanged vp and fa&s;tened, and pre&s;erued in euery Church in a Table, to be &s;eene and read at all times by any that will. And that the de|faults of Officers, and Mini&s;ters, Clerks, &amp; Church wardens in this behalfe, &s;halbe enquired of and puni&s;hed by the Iu&s;tices of A&s;&s;i&s;e, and Iu&s;tices of peace in their Se&s;&s;ions, according to their di&s;cretions, as comtempts of her Maie&s;ties commandement. And that al the Standerds and Waights what&s;oeuer, not &s;ized, marked &amp; printed, and made re&s;pectiuely agreeing to and with the &s;ayd new Standerds, and the meaning of this Proclamation, &s;hal from the &s;aid fea&s;t of Michaelmas next comming, be reputed and taken for vntrue Waights, and &s;hall within foure weekes after the &s;ayd fea&s;t, be broken, defaced, and de&s;troyed by the owners of the &s;ame, or by the Officers hauing authoritie to enquire of fal&s;e Waights. And for the execution there|of, all Maiors, Baylifes, and other head Officers of euery Citie, Shire Towne, Borough, or Market Towne, &s;hall immediatly after the &s;aid fea&s;t of Michaelmas, and &s;o from time to time according to the Statute of xi. Hen. vii. cau&s;e to be brought before them all the Waights within the &s;ame Citie, Borough, or Towne, to be duely viewed and examined, and &s;uch as they &s;hall finde defectiue, to cau&s;e to be broken, and further puni&s;hment to be done, according to that Statute. And that the Iu&s;tices of peace, or two of them, whereof one to be of the <HI>Quorum,</HI> &s;hal with al diligence, and from time to time, by examination or enquirie, heart and determine the defaults of all Maiors, Bailifes, and other head Officers within their limits or authorities in that behalfe, and al&s;o of all buyers and &s;ellers doing contrarie to the &s;ame Act and to &s;et Fines and amerciaments vpon the offenders, by their di&s;cretions, and tho&s;e to e&s;treate into the &s;ayd Court of E<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 letter">chequer, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="OXF" EXTENT="1 word"> that vpon paine of the puni&s;hment due for &s;uch a contempt. La&s;tly, her Maie&s;tie &s;traightly
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<HEAD>A Pile of Troy Waightes, conteining xiiii. peeces of the &s;euerall poizes following, viz.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Standerd for Troy Waight in the Queenes Ex|chequer.</HEAD>
<ITEM>The Ca&s;e or Capitall Waight being CClvi. ounces. &lcub;Cxxviii. ounces. &lcub;lxiiii. ounces. &lcub;xxxii. ounces. &lcub;xvi. ounces. &lcub;viii. ounces. &lcub;iiii. ounces. &lcub;ii. ounces. &lcub;i. ounce. &lcub;di. ounce. &lcub;&abque;. ounce. &lcub;di. &abque;. ounce. &lcub;ii. peeces farthing golde Waight. Poiz altogether v. C. xii. ounces, which is xlii. ii. viii. ounces, euery pounde conteining xii. ounces Troy.</ITEM>
<ITEM>One Iuerie boxe conteining one ounce, which is xx. penny waight, &lcub;one halfe ounce, which is x. penny waight, &lcub;one quarter ounce, which is v. penny waight, &lcub;one fift part of an ounce which is foure penny waight, &lcub;iii. penny waight, &lcub;ii. penny waight, &lcub;i. penny waight, which is xxiiii. Graines, &lcub;i. halfe penny waight, which is xii. Graines, &lcub;i. fourth part of a penny waight, which is vi. Graines, &lcub;iiii. Graines, &lcub;iii. Graines, &lcub;ii. Graines, &lcub;i. Graine, being in all xiii. peeces.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>A Sute of Bell Waights of Auoir de poiz, conteining vii. peeces of the &s;euerall Poizes following, viz.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>The Standerd for Auoir de poiz in the Queenes Ex|chequer.</HEAD>
<ITEM>One halfe hundred waight being lvi. li. &lcub;one quarter of a C. waight being xxviii. li. &lcub;one halfe quarter of a C. waight being xiiii. li. &lcub;vii. li. &lcub;iiii. li. &lcub;ii. li. &lcub;i. li. Poiz al|together fiue &s;core xii. li. which is the hundred waight of <HI>Auoir de poiz</HI> nowe in v&s;e, euery pound conteining xvi. ounces <HI>Auoir de poiz.</HI></ITEM>
<ITEM>One round flatte Pile of &s;mall waights of <HI>Auoir de poiz,</HI> wherein the pound waight is deuided into xvi. ounces, viz. viii. li. &lcub;iiii. li. &lcub;ii. li. &lcub;i. li. &lcub;di. li. &lcub;&abque;. li. &lcub;di. &abque;. li. which is ii. ounces &lcub;i. ounce &lcub;di. ounce &lcub;&abque;. ounce &lcub;di. &abque;. ounce, &lcub;ii. xvi. partes of an ounce. Poiz altoghether xvi. li. <HI>Auoir de poiz,</HI> and be in nomber xiii. peeces.</ITEM>
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<HEAD>E L.
<DATE>A^o D^o 1588</DATE>
<DATE>A^o Reg XXX^o</DATE></HEAD>
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<HEAD>Halfe Hun|dred.</HEAD>
<ITEM>LXIIII. onz. R</ITEM>
<ITEM>LVI. pound A.</ITEM>
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<CLOSER>God &s;aue the Queene.</CLOSER>
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<P>&leaf; <HI>Imprinted at London by the Deputies of</HI> Chri&s;topher Barker. Printer to the Queenes mo&s;t excellent Maie&s;tie.</P>
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