3. Wales
The general unit is the Cibyn (kibbin) = 4 gallons or 32 lb. of wheat, the English half-bushel or tuffet. It is divided into 4 quarts, and 16 cibyns make a Peg = 8 bushels or 1 quarter.
Measures on the English stone system are also used:
| The | Ffiol | = | 1 | stone, | 14 lb. |
| „ | Peck | = | 3 | „ | |
| „ | Hobbet | = | 12 | „ | about 2-1/2 bushels. |
There is a Hobbet in England, but this is about a bushel.
The 5-span Ell survived in Wales for a long time as the Hirlath.
[31]. There was considerable intercourse between Marseilles and Scotland. The Scots custom of eating grey peas with oil on Carlin’ Sunday is taken from the Provençal custom of eating chick-peas on Palm Sunday; and the traditional reason, the arrival on that day, in famine-time, of a ship laden with pulse, is the same at Leith as at Marseilles.
[32]. It was a common custom formerly to measure corn by the shallow bushel, striked for wheat, heaped for lighter corn. The oats firlot of 31 pints was ordered to end the practice of giving ‘three straiked for two heaped measures [which] do exceed and are not just.’