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An Historical Relation Of The Island Ceylon In The East Indies

PART III
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The Goldsmiths use them, Twenty of these Beads make a Collonda and Twenty Collondas make a Pallum.
[Measures bigger than the Statute punishable, but less not; and why.] Here is no Punishment for those that make less weights and measures.

They are more circumspect that their measures be not too big than too little.

For Money being scarce, Corn passeth instead of Money, and every man mets by his own measure.

Which therefore he makes as large as he can or dares, that so when he receives his Debt of Corn, he may get as much as he can.

Which upon this account would be a great injury to the poorer sort of People, who commonly are the Debtors.


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