[Sca-cooks] Drachma Weight

[James Prescott]

>>   Interesting aside:  Even until quite late English bread was sold by
>>   Troy weight.
> 
> Actually, it was sold by multiple standard weight loaves as defined by the
> Assize of Bread.

Yep.  The weights used in the Assize of bread were Troy, not Tower
or Avoirdupois.  The Assize and its use of Troy weights for the
bread continued in use in England until 1822 (perhaps later in some 
towns outside London), long after most other measurements in England 
had switched to Avoirdupois.


Thorvald