Currency and other Measures

Currency

The Manx, Irish and English shillings were of different value through most of the period of interest. The Manx shilling was reckoned as 14 pence whilst that of the English was the well known 12 pence (hence when you see 12d entered as a value it should be taken as an indication that Manx currency is being used). In the late 18^th and early 19^th Centuries the arrangement appeared to be [ Clay Currency of the Isle of Man]:

At this period, the prices at the retail shops in the towns, were guided by the English money value; and in the markets, by the country people, the Manx money value was most generally adopted. The difference of value in barter was done away with by the equalisation of the island coinage with that of Great Britain in 1840; and it is necessary, simply to record the fact of the above difference in money value, as a matter of history.

This equalisation actually caused riots!

The following table taken from Feltham will be found useful.

Land measurement

The general measurement was in terms of acres - a statute acre was equal to 22 yard x 220 yards, i.e. 640 to the square mile. An acre contained 4 roods; each rood contained 40 perches! (hence A.R.P. seen in Wood's Atlas).

A commonly used Insular term was the daymowth which was given by T. Quayle General View of the Agriculture.. in 1812 as

Daymouth, or rather Daymath or Daymowth, a provincial term, signifying so much as may be mown by one man within the day; now usually estimated in the island three fourths of a Statute acre.

Note also that the Manx Yard was some 3 inches longer than the English yard

Weights and measures

Bolls, bushels, pecks.
TBC

Hundreds and Mazes

A 'hundred' was a measure of fish - and was equal to 124 fish! (i.e. a 'long hundred').