By another statute, of rather uncertain date, but passed about this period, it is enacted that the standard of bushels, gallons, and ells (_standardum busselli galonis et ulne_) is to be marked with an Iron Seale of our Lord the King, and safe kept, under pain of £100, and no measure is to be used in any town unless it do agree with the King’s measure, and be marked with the seal of the shire town; and if any do sell or buy by measures unsealed, and not examined by the Mayor or Bailiffs, he shall be grievously amerced and all the measures of every Town, both great and small, shall be viewed and examined twice in the year; and if any be convict for a double measure, to wit, a greater for to buy with, and a lesser for to sell with, he shall be imprisoned for his falsehood (_tanquam falsarius_) and shall be grievously punished. The manner in which the various standard measures of capacity were arrived at is worthy of mention. It is enacted that: “One English penny, called a stirling, round and without any clipping, shall weigh twenty-two wheat corns in the midst of the ear, and twenty pence shall make an ounce, and twelve ounces a pound, and eight pounds shall make a gallon of wine, and eight gallons of wine shall make one bushel London, and eight bushels one quarter.” We are glad to observe that a subsequent statute was passed which provided that both the pillory, or stretch-neck (_collistrigium_) as it was called, and also the tumbrel, must be of suitable strength, so that offenders might be punished without bodily peril. The _collistrigium_ given below is taken from an old drawing in the City Records, temp. Ed. III. [Illustration: The Pillory.]