Fotmal
The fotmal (Template:Langx, lit. "foot-measure"; Template:Langx), also known as the foot (Script error: No such module "Lang".), formel, fontinel, and fotmell, was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in measuring production, sales, and duties of lead.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
Under the c. 1300 Assize of Weights and Measures, it was equal to 70 Merchants' pounds and made up Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄30 of a load of lead.[1] Elsewhere, it was made of 70 avoirdupois pounds and made up Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄24 load.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found. In 16th-century Derbyshire the fotmal was evidently divided into "boles" and made up Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.1⁄30 of a fother, meaning it was considered to be 84 avoirdupois pounds.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
It continued to be used until the 16th century.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
References
Citations
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Ruffhead, Owen, ed. (1763a), The Statutes at Large, vol. I: From Magna Charta to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time, London: Mark Basket for the Crown, pp. 148–149. Template:In lang & Template:In lang & Template:In lang
Bibliography
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gill, M.C.; et al. (1998), "Weights and Measures Used in the Lead Industry" (PDF), British Mining, vol. 61, Sheffield: Northern Mine Research Society, pp. 129–140
