1 Jan 1495 Jahr - ton-tight

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A measure of capacity, based on the contents of the ‘ton’, a cask for holding wine or even dry goods. 1415 <i>in cariagio ccc lxxxvij tuntight dictorum lapidum per carectas a quarera</i>, York (SS35/33); 1472 <i>viijs receptis de Willelmo Tod pro una tontight in nave vocata Anna a Selandia usque Hullam</i> (SS129/68); 1489-90 <i>a ton-t’ ferri</i>, Hull (YRS144/212). In the ordinances of the <i>Merchant Mistery</i> in York is: 1495 <i>agreed ... that what person ... freght any ship outher in England or beyond the see to the beofe of the felisship sall answere to the said felisship of a tontight lyk as the ship is freght or els to the valour of a tontight in money</i> (SS129/87). Salzman comments on the weight of a <i>ton tyght</i> in <i>c</i>.1470 (SZ1/122).

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