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A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… and a clock on the staircase, dated 1720 and with the weights and pendulum running in a channel cut in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the treasurer, the education officer and the inspector of weights and measures all had their offices in Wisbech in the …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… commercial centre. From at least 1662 the town had its own weights and measures. The Corporation still possesses a brass …
A History of the County of Oxford
… disturbances at the market, and issued orders concerning weights, measures, and forestalling, 67 though in 1842 the clerks again lacked the required weights. 68 From 1705 stallage and tollage were leased, at …
A History of the County of Oxford
… petty sessional division, who served also as inspector of weights and measures, and the high or chief constable for the …
A History of the County of Shropshire
… for sanitary affairs; highway repair; street lighting; weights and measures inspection; magistrates', police, and …