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.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Thomson, John, 1733?-1807.

Standardized Title:

New and correct tables

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grain--Prices--Scotland--Tables.

Grain.

Grain--Prices--Great Britain--Tables.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii,356p. )

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : printed by A. Murray and J. Cochran. For J. Bell, W. Creech, and C. Elliot, MDCCLXXVII. [1777]

Notes:

First published in 1761 as 'New and correct tables'.

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T98097.

OCLC:

642762578