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Exchequer: Indentures of Receipt for Standard Ale Measures
Catalogue reference: E 22
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E 22
Indentures, signed by the collectors of the excise within each excise district, acknowledging that they have received from the Exchequer standard brass ale measures of one quart and one pint, to be delivered to the chief magistrates of the towns...
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E 22
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- Exchequer: Indentures of Receipt for Standard Ale Measures
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Date (When the record was created)
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1700-1701
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Description (What the record is about)
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Indentures, signed by the collectors of the excise within each excise district, acknowledging that they have received from the Exchequer standard brass ale measures of one quart and one pint, to be delivered to the chief magistrates of the towns mentioned in the indentures.
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- The National Archives, Kew
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English
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41 bundle(s)
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- Taxation
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The Ale Measures Act of 1698 was an attempt to enforce the use of standard-sized vessels for selling ale. Each mayor or chief officer of a city or town was responsible for certifying that drinking vessels were of a standard size - either a pint or a quart. To do this, they were supplied with standard pint or quart measures by the collectors of the excise who obtained them from the chamberlains of the Exchequer who held the original standard measures.
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