Talk:Firlot

Bushel?

If "firlot was equal to 4 pecks" and (from peck)" four pecks make a bushel", why is a firlot not just a Scots word for bushel? --Chuunen Baka (talk) 09:17, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

More than one source needed

This article seems very exposed to errors by relying on just one source. If you look at an alternative, such as https://archive.org/stream/cihm_47512#page/n169/mode/2up/search/firlot Here you will find the view of how these obsolete measures ended up (the source is dated 1863).

I note, also, that the boll was in use as a measure of hay in the Scottish Borders around 1939 - but unfortunately no reference here, just word of mouth from someone who worked on a farm at that time. (His memory seems pretty good, and the longer ago the better.)

The comment in the article "It finally disappeared with the introduction of Imperial units by the Weights and Measures Act 1824" is called into question by the 1863 source shown above and also by the Highland Potato Famine relief efforts, when meal supplies were reported in both bolls and pounds. Note that these are government reports on government relief supplies, with accounts prepared for Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet, who was a most punctilious administrator who I doubt would have tolerated an obsolete measure. Is there anyone out there who wants to take up this article for some better sourcing? ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:39, 25 September 2017 (UTC)

See also https://archive.org/stream/oldcountryandfa00britgoog#page/n191/mode/2up/search/boll

ThoughtIdRetired (talk) 22:49, 25 September 2017 (UTC)