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Tables, shewing, both in Scots and sterling money, the price of any quantity of grain, &c. from one lippy, or one fourth part of a peck, to a thousand bolls at all the various prices, from L. 3 Scots, or 5 s. Sterling to L. 18 Scots or 30 s. Sterling, each table advancing by 1 s. Scots or 1 d. Sterling per boll; and also at L. 3: 3: 4, L. 3: 6: 8, L. 3: 13: 4, and L. 3: 16: 8, up to L. 12 Scots per boll, and from 4 1/2 to 18 merks, (the prices at which grain is sold in Scotland): With Rules and Examples to make them answer for calculating the price of all sorts of goods sold by Number, Weight, or Measure. Also, Tables, shewing the Price of any number of stones of Hay, loads of Coals, &c. from one to ten thousand, from 3 d. to 1 s. Sterling the stone, load, &c. each Table advancing one farthing. Very useful for Noblemen and Gentlemen, and their Factors; for Farmers, Brewers, and Bakers; and for Merchants and Shopkeepers. By John Thomson Writer in Edinburgh. Together with, A Table reducing English bushels and quarters to the Edinburgh standards or Linlithgow measure, and a Table for reducing the price of the English quarter to the price of the Scots boll of barley or oats, wheat or pease; A comparison of the weights and measures of Scotland with those of England, as regulated by the statutes of both kingdoms now in force; and, Tables of English weights and measures. A new edition, much enlarged
Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.Date: MDCCLXXVII. [1777]- E-books
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The corn dealer's assistant consisting of tables ready calculated, to shew at one view, the amount of any quantity of grain, from one quarter to 500, and so on; at all the various prices, from 5 Shillings to 4 l. per Quarter, advancing by 3 d. to which is added, one Table to shew what any Quantity of Grain amounts to, from 1 Quarter to 500, from one Halfpenny to two Pence Halfpenny, very useful for Farmers, Corn Factors, Brewers, Distillers, Malsters &c. Calculated and Re-Examined from the Press, by John Hewitt, Profess'd Accomptant, Author of the Tables upon Simple Interest, &c.
Hewitt, JohnDate: MDCCXXXVI. [1736]