N29515:638
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to…Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to…
Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easy way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.Instructions for children: or, The child's & youth's delight, teaching an easie way to spell & read true English. : Containing the father's godly advice; directing parents in a right and spiritual manner to educate their children. : With a Christian catechism, wherein all the chief principles of true Christianity are clearly opened. : Together with many other things both pleasant and useful for the education of children. / Written by Benj. Keach.
New York: printed by Will. Bradford, 1695
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Weights used in England.
IN England they commonly use two kinds of Weights, viz. Troy ⟨p. 119⟩and Avoirdupois; by Troy weight they weigh Wheat, Bread, Gold, Silver, and the like, the least Denomination of which is a Grain, the weight of a grain of Wheat gathered out of the middle of the Ear, well dried.
IN England they commonly use two kinds of Weights, viz. Troy ⟨p. 119⟩and Averdupoize; by Troy weight they weigh Wheat, Bread, Gold, Silver, and the like, the least Denomination of which is a Grain, the weight of a grain of Wheat gathered out of the midle of the Ear, well dryed.
24 Grains, make 1 Penny weight 20 Penny weight, 1 Ounce. 12 Ounces, 1 Pound.
By A-ver-du-poise Weight, that is, Have you weight? or You shall have your full weight, is weighed all kind of Grocery & Physical Drugs, as also Rosin, Tar, Wax, Pitch, Tallow, Hemp, Flax, Iron, Steel, Lead, Tin, Copper, Alum, Copper as, and all such kind of Garble, whence there may issue a waste. The smallest Denomination of this Weight is a Dram.