HERB - A soap question Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights andMeasures Quest...

[sunshinegirl]

Thanks.  Not that I fully understand any of this.  For example, what is a
SEAM?
COOMB?
QUARTER?
And how in the world does that relate to "halfe a strike of Ashen ashes, "?

Any of you Soapmakers care to elaborate?

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> From: Hemophelia at aol.com
> To: herbalist at Ansteorra.ORG
> Subject: Re: HERB - A soap question  Fw: [SCA-Caid]Medieval Weights
andMeasures Quest...
> Date: Sunday, June 20, 1999 7:44 PM
> 
> I asked the resident brewer. . .he looked it up in one of his books. .
.this 
> was the answer he gave me. . .
> 
> Zupko (the author of the book. . .) defines a strike as:
> A measure of capacity for grain generally containing 2 bushels (about
7.05 
> dekaliters) and equal to 1/4 SEAM.  In some shires, however, strikes of
1/2 
> to 4 bushels (about 1.76 to about 14.10 dekaliter) were occasionally
used.  
> The strike was commonly called the half-coomb.  Since the establishment
of 
> the Imperial system in 1824 the strike has been reconed at 2 bushel
(7.274 
> dekaliter) and equal to 1/2 COOMB and 1/4 QUARTER.  Occasionally, it was 
> abbreviated str.
> 
> 
> Reference - 
> Zupko, Ronald Edward.  A Dictionary of English Weights and Measures, The 
> Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.  University of Wisconsin Press,
1968.
> 
> Helene
>
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