Weights and Measures

Alan Stanier provides a simple table showing the decimal equivalents of pounds, shillings, pence, florins and guineas and other archaic coins. It then goes on to interpret old linear measures such as hands, feet, rods, poles and perches: and capacity measure such as bushels and hogsheads. Useful dates such as Lady Day and Michaelmas Day are given, and the regnal years of British Monarchs since William 1. Click on the link for Relative Value of Sums of Money, which provides tables such as the Daily Money Wage Rates of Building Craftsmen and Labourers in Southen England 1264-1954