Note 39 — BOOK II.
Reading edition
Since the publication of the third edition, the heaped measure, which was part of the new system, has been abolished. The following paragraph from the third edition will serve for reference to it:
“The other imperial measure is applied to goods which it is customary to sell by heaped measure, and is as follows:
2 gallons 1 peck
4 pecks 1 bushel
3 bushels 1 sack
12 sacks 1 chaldron.
The gallon and bushel in this measure hold the same when only just filled, as in the last. The bushel, however, heaped up as directed by the act of parliament, is a little more than one-fourth greater than before.”