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- F. T. Wainwright, Archaeology and Place Names and History (London, 1962), p. 6.
- F. G. Skinner, Weights and Measures (HMSO, 1967).
- 33 Edward!, stat. 6. 'De Admensuratione Terrae'. Trans. W. Airey, 'On the origin of the British Measures of Capacity, Weight and Length', Proc. Inst. Civ. Eng., Vol. ciaxvii, part in.
- MS Cotton, Vesp. E. IX, ff. 86–110.
- Calendar and Tables. MS Hari 5769, f. 63 sq. A.D. 1682.
- Nicholson & Burn, The History and Antiquities of the Counties of Westmorland and Cumberland (London, 1777).
- Westmorland: from Nicholson & Burn, op. cit.; Lancashire: from John Holt, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Lancaster (1795).
- 35 Elizabeth, cap. 6, sect. 8. Skinner, op. cit.
- Statutes of the Realm I. (Rec. Corn. 1810), pp. 204–05. English Historical Documents, Vol. In, 1189–1327. Trans. David C. Douglas.
- English Historical Documents, Vol. Iv. 1327–1485. Ed. A. R. Myers.
- BM MS Reg. 18C. xx (159o–162o).
- See n.9 above.
- Taken from County Reports to the Board of Agriculture.
- N. D. B. Gras, The Evolution of the English Corn Market (Harvard, 1915), pp. 132 and 212.
- Quoted in The Agrarian History of England and Wales (CUP, 1967), Vol. 4. A.D. 1500–1640, 579, fn.
- B. H. Slicher van Bath, The Agrarian History of Western Europe, A.D. 500–1850 (London, 1963), p. 173.
- J. Bailey & G. Culley, General View of the Agriculture of the County of Northumberland (Third Edition, 1805).
- The Annals of Yorkshire ( compiled by John Mayhall, Leeds, 1862), pp. 421–22.
- Devonald Fletcher, The Weights and Measures Acts, 1878–1904 (Manchester, 1908).
- Edited and translated by Ian Kershaw (Yorks. Arch. Society, 1970).
- Seen. 9 above.
- Henri Pirenne, Economic and Social History of Medieval Europe (London, 1936).
- F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford History of England, Vol. II, O. U.P., 1943), p. 510.
- E. M. Jope, The Regional Cultures of Medieval Britain, in Culture and Environment (London, 1963), pp. 337–38.
- Contemporary awareness of these anomalies is illustrated by the gravestone of Daniel Lambert, the celebrated Leicester giant. It gives his measurements as follows, '. . . He measured 3 ft i inch round the leg, 9 ft 4 in round the body and weighed 52 stones II lb (i 41b to the stone) . .
- The piecemeal nature of the change from customary to statute measure may be noted in the case of the Keighley-Kendal Turnpike. In laying out and signposting the road, the surveyors used statute measure as one might expect, yet they still had to buy some land needed for diversions at so much per customary acre.
- Pease and Chitty, Law of Markets and Fairs, 2nd edition by Harold Parrish (London, 1958).