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Quotation dates: 1618
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Sterline. The town of Stirling in attrib. use, as a standard for the pint measure (the ‘Stirling jug’, see Jug n.). — 1618 Acts IV 586/1.
And the same measure and firlot being fund agreable with the … jedge the saids commissioners caused … fill the same with water which being full they fand that the same conteined twentie ane pincts and ane mutchkin of just sterline jug and measure and that the forsaid jug containes … thrie punds and seaven unces of Frensh troys weght of clear running water
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