| When wheat is sold for two shillings, manchet shall wey sixtie shillings, and cheat foure pound. |
| They get a bit famous, it goes to their head and they think, wey hey, we can do it all. |
| Cheese and salt are purchased by the wey of two hundredweight, or by the stone of fourteen pounds. |
| By a statute of 9 Hen. VI. it was ordained that the wey of cheese should contain 32 cloves of 7 lbs. each, i.e. 224 lbs., or 2 cwts. |
| When wheat is sold for fiue shillings, then manchet shall wey 24 shillings, and the cheat bread 32 shillings. |
| He didna say so to me, but I imagined he looked that wey,' she said. |
