three great pound; and eight wee is a ship pound.

Now, concerning their measures. As they have two sorts of weights,
so they have also two sorts of measures, wherewith they measure
cloth, both linen and woollen. They call the one an areshine, and
the other a locut. The areshine I take to be as much as the
Flanders ell, and their locut half an English yard. With their
areshine they may mete all such sorts of cloths as cometh into the
land, and with the locut all such cloth, both linen and woollen, as
they make themselves. And whereas we used to give yard and inch, or
yard and handfull, they do give nothing but bare measure.

They have also a measure wherewith they do mete their corn, which
they call a set-forth, and the half of that an osmine. This set-
forth I take to be three bushels of London measure. And as for
their drink measure, they call it a spanne, which is much like a
bucket; and of that I never saw any true rate, but that some was
greater than other some. And as for the measures of Wardhouse,
wherewith they mete their cloth, there is no difference between that
and the measure of danske, which in half an English ell.

Concerning the tolls and customs of Russia, it was reported to me in
Muscovy that the Turks and Armenians pay the tenth penny custom of
all the wares they bring into the Emperor's land, and above that
they pay for all such goods as they weigh at the Emperor's beam two
pence of the rouble, which the buyer or seller must make report of
to the master of the beam. They also pay a certain horse toll,
which is in divers places of his realm four pence of a horse.

The Dutch nation are free of this; notwithstanding for certain