1 gen 1616 anni - fother

Descrizione:

A measure, a cart load of hay, wood, stone, turf, etc. 1399 <i>Et in cariagio dxlij fothers eorum lapidum per carectas a quarera usque aquam</i>, York (SS35/15); 1456-7 <i>pro perquisicione de vj foder plaster, ijs</i>, Fountains Abbey (SS130/15); 1518 <i>fower fowder of wood to be brought</i>, Esholt (YRS80/86); 1558 <i>Robert Sale shall sett yeirly upon the said ground x lod or fowthers of dunge or maynour</i>, Tong (Mss3/37). In a lead-mining context it represented a certain weigh of smelted lead but the amount differed from one region to another and over the centuries (JHR75): 1371 <i>de novo cooperienda cum vj fothers et vj petris plumbi</i>, York (SS35/8); 1446-58 <i>de precio j fodir plumbi, </i>Fountains Abbey (SS130/131); 1498 <i>to be wound and weed </i>[weighed]<i> at the common crane of this Citie … shall … pay … for every fouder of lede vijd</i>, York (YRS103/138); 1616 <i>A stone is 14 l</i>[b]<i> 8st is 100 weight, and 20 hundreth weight is a fudder of lead, a tunne weight or a wayne load</i>, Brandsby (NYRO44/113). See R&J42-5.

Aggiunto al nastro di tempo:

Data: