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fotmellum

fotmellum, ~us [ME fotmel, fotmal] , measure of weight for lead, usu.70 lb. Cf. pes. 11‥ (v. carretta 3d); 1222 pro duabus chareatis et xij fotmell’ plumbi, lxx s. (KR Ac 491/13) Ac. Build. Hen. III 146; 1230 Godricus de Novo Castello ‥ regi liberavit ‥ Portesmue vijxx et j ~a plumbi Cl 348; 1267 sexies viginti petre faciunt magnum charrum plumbi. ‥ item charrus plumbi consistit et xxx ~is et quodlibet ~um continent vj petras minus duabus libris, et quelibet petra ponderat xij libras in pondere plumbi, ‥ ; sic ergo fit rectum ~um ex lxx libris et magnus charrus ex octies viginti et xv petris ‥ (Assisa de ponderibus) Fleta 72 (= StRealm I 205); 1302 plumbum: idem respondit de lxxvj pedibus plumbi qui faciunt iij carretas iiij pedes receptis de remanenti in castro de L. ‥ summa viij carrete et dim. et vij pedes unde computat in emendacione domorum in castro de L. per loca vij pedes j votmellum MinAc W. Wales I 473; 1303 pro ij charectatis et vj †fontinellis [MS: fotmell’] plumbi prec’ viij li. xv s. onerati in ‥ navi (KR AcCust 15/1 m. 3) EEC 353; 1310 xj s. viij d. de v †fotinellis et ij libris plumbi venditis Ac. Exec. Ep. Exon. 12; 1341 septem sarplar’ lane et quinque fotemall’ plumbi inventa fuerunt in quadam nave Johannis S. IMisc 146/5 (2); volentes ‥ certiorari ‥ quot sacci seu sarplarii et fotmalli plumbi ‥ existunt Ib. (3); sarplarios et fotemallos in eadem navi ‥ posuerunt Ib. (4); 1409 computat in ij fotmelis plumbi emptis viij s. iiij d. Comp. Swith. 210.

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