Volume 1

The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd / By Mr. John Greaves ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c.

  • Greaves, John, 1602-1652.
Date:
1745
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Credit: The origin and antiquity of our English weights and measures discover'd. By their near agreement with such standards that are now found in one of the Egyptian pyramids. Together with the explanation of divers lines therein heretofore measur'd / By Mr. John Greaves ... As also, some conjectures concerning the time when these pyramids were built; in answer to certain letters, & c. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    alfo. the Parcels and Shares belonging to each Hyde are equal to that of 4 Yard-lands, and thefe Hyde Parts are ulually fevered and divided from each other with MeerStones, each containing 4 Yard-land Parts. But (excepting that thefe Pieces of Meadow Ground, and of fuch that is Lot-Grafs, or parting Grafs, are commonly called Aydes) the Name of Hyde is feldom ufed. In com- puting by the Hyde our Anceftors (it feems) had refpect to its Value as well as Quanti- ty, inafmuch as Lands in old Times were ufually rated and affeffed by the Hyde and Yard-land. Every Hyde as far as I can ga- ther -was valued at 41. per Annum. [Let this be better enquired into, for at the Wri- ting hereof I had ‘not the Opportunity to get fufficient Information about it.] And confequently a Yard-land or the 4th Part of a Hyde at 208. per Annum. Yet in fome Places the Hyde feems to have been divided into more Yard-lands, as alfo into Parts, o- therwife denominated according to the Cu- ftom of each Country. This Value of the. Hyde feems to have been in the Times of the old Saxons, long before the Conqueft, but afterwards when the Country grew more populous, and Lands came to be improved, when ‘Trade began to encreafe, and Coin became more plentiful, and when theCrown Piece, or Ounce of Silver, whichat firft was valued