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Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth, 1601-3
… advantage, so that some sell Gascony wine at 16 d. the gallon, sack at 2 s. 4 d., and Malmsey at 2 s. 6 d. If this …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: Elizabeth
… gallons the tun, which no cask ever contained by the ale gallon. We ask licence to return home, and continue our …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… the wines was 10 guineas per hogshead; the brandy 6 s. per gallon. He had the Lords Justices' order to let me take …
Calendar of State Papers Domestic: William and Mary, 1695
… and fifty barrels of pitch, in each of which was a twenty gallon rundlet of brandy or Rhenish wine, and the day before …
Dictionary of Traded Goods and Commodities
… be stored. In 1531 the Ale BARREL was standardized at 36 GALLON, with the KILDERKIN and FIRKIN in proportion [Acts … in this; for example in Derby the ale BARREL had 32 GALLON like those for BEER [Houghton]. OED earliest date of … as TWOPENNY Found in units of BARREL, BOTTLE, CASK, GALLON See also ALE GLASS, ALE LOOM, ALE POT, ALE STOOL, ALE …