they weigh by the pode, as hops, salt, iron, lead, tin, and batrie,
with divers others. Notwithstanding, they used to weigh batrie more
often by the small weight than by the great.

Whensoever you find the prices of your wares rated by the pode,
consider that to be the great weight, and the pound to be small.
Also they divide the small pound into forty-eight parts, and they
call the eight-and-fortieth part a slotnike, by the which slotnike
the retailers sell their wares out of their shops, as goldsmiths,
grocers, silk-sellers, and such other, like as we do use to retail
by the ounce. And as for their great weight, which they call the
beasemar, they sell by pode or ship pound. The pode doth contain of
the great weight, forty pounds; and of the small, eighty. There go
ten podes to a ship pound.

Yet you must consider that their great weight is not full with ours;
for I take not their great pound to be full thirteen ounces, but
above twelve I think it be. But for your just proof, weigh six
rubbles of Russian money with our pound weight, and then shall you
see what it lacketh; for six rubbles of Russia is, by the Emperor's
standard, the great pound. So that I think it the next way to know
the just weight as well of the great pound as of the small.

There is another weight needful to be known, which is the weight of
Wardhouse; for so much as they weigh all their dry fish by weight,
which weight is the basemere as they of Russia do use,
notwithstanding there is another sort in it. The names of those
weights are these: the marke pound, the great pound, the wee and
the ship pound. The marke pound is to be understood as our pound,
and their great is twenty-four of their marke pound; the wee is