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<div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Chris Pickford wrote ….</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>As to the short (100lbs) and long cwt (112lbs) issue, I've made quite a study of metal prices based on checking the maths of bellfounders’ bills – and the number of instances of bells being weighed in short cwts is very small indeed (only one in fact, although the list of qualifying samples – where the documentation provides concrete evidence – isn’t very large). The other day, incidentally, I did some checking of weights recorded for the old bells of Hailes Abbey in 1556 – and the maths showed that they were in long cwts.</span><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I ‘think’ the Roger Purdue I ring of five for Hannington, Wilts was recorded in short hundredweight. 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