SC - prices in 1520

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param>Someone said:


</color>> >  To my knowledge, Troy measure was not used for measuring

> > commodities<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> (other than bread and precious metals) so the price

</color>> > per pound is likely<color><param>0000,0000,0000</param> based on the 16 ounce Avoirdupois pound.   


In Spain the Troy pound was used for spices.  The quote below comes 
from De Nola (1529), and follows the recipe for a spice mixture:


</color>"And the weights of the spices in the apothecary shops are in this 
manner: one pound is twelve ounces; one ounce, eight drachmas; one 
drachma, three scruples: another way that you can more clearly 
understand this: a drachma weights three <italic>dineros</italic>; a scruple is the 
weight of one <italic>dinero</italic>; and a scruple is twenty grains of wheat."


Brighid



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Lady Brighid ni Chiarain
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