Note 657 — Chapter X · BREWING—ALE, BEER, CIDER
Reading edition
'[A Brewer's assise] is xijd highing and xijd lowing in the price of a quarter Malte, and evermore shilling to qa' (= farthing).—Coventry Leet Bk. (E. E. T. S.), 397. In other words, ale was as many farthings a gallon as malt was shillings a quarter.