The length of a colliers sacke, one yard and a halfe Acts & Orders. 1609 City of London (England). Court of Common Council. This text is an enriched version of the TCP digital transcription B12781 of text S123991 in the English Short Title Catalog. Textual changes and metadata enrichments aim at making the text more computationally tractable, easier to read, and suitable for network-based collaborative curation by amateur and professional end users from many walks of life. The text has been tokenized and linguistically annotated with MorphAdorner. The annotation includes standard spellings that support the display of a text in a standardized format that preserves archaic forms ('loveth', 'seekest'). Textual changes aim at restoring the text the author or stationer meant to publish. This text has not been fully proofread Approx. 1KB of XML-encoded text transcribed from 1 1-bit group-IV TIFF page image. EarlyPrint Project Evanston,IL, Notre Dame, IN, St. Louis, MO 2018 B14571

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 eng Coal trade -- England -- London -- Early works to 1800. eebo The length of a colliers sacke, one yard and a halfe City of London (England). Court of Common Council. 1609 1 151 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 A This text has no known defects that were recorded as gap elements at the time of transcription. 2014-01 Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2014-03 Sampled and proofread 2014-03 Text and markup reviewed and edited 2015-03 Batch review (QC) and XML conversion
M. T. C. 1610. THe Length of a Colliers Sacke , one yard and a halfe . 2 The Breadth three quarters of a yard . 3 The Sacke to containe therein foure bushels of Coales , according to the Statute . 4 The Sacke being in length and breadth as is abouesaid , to be set vpright , and being not filled , to be filled vp and made good out of some other Sackes , whereby his Maiesties subiects be not deceiued of their measure . 5 If any Sacks be found not conteyning the full measure of foure bushels : then the penalty to be extreated according to the Statute , which is iij . s.iiij.d . of euery Sacke . 6 Also the Sacke not conteyning the measure aforesaid , to be burned , according to an Act of Common Counsell in that case prouided .

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