[1615.—"Cloth to the value of six cattes ([Catty]) less three tiggalls."—Foster, Letters, iv. 107.
[1639.—"Four Ticals make a Tayl ([Tael])."—Mandelslo, E.T. ii. 130.]
1688.—"The proportion of their (Siamese) Money to ours is, that their Tical, which weighs no more than half a Crown, is yet worth three shillings and three half-pence."—La Loubère, E.T. p. 72.
1727.—"Pegu Weight.
| 1 | Viece is | 39 ou. Troy, | |
| or 1 | Viece | 100 Teculs. | |
| 140 | Viece | a Bahaar | (see [BAHAR]). |
The Bahaar is 3 Pecul China."—A. Hamilton, ii. 317; [ed. 1744].
c. 1759.—"... a dozen or 20 fowls may be bought for a Tical (little more than ½ a Crown)."—In Dalrymple, Or. Rep. i. 121.
1775.—Stevens, New and Complete Guide to E.I. Trade, gives
"Pegu weight:
100 moo = 1 Tual (read Tical).