Wey (unit)
The wey or weight was an English unit of weight and dry volume by at least 900 AD, when it begins to be mentioned in surviving legal codes.Weight
A statute of Edgar the Peaceful set a price floor on wool by threatening both the seller and purchaser who agreed to trade a wool wey for less than 120 pence, but the wey itself varied over time and by location. The wey was standardized as 14 stone of 12½ merchants' pounds each by the time of the Assize of Weights and Measures. This wey was applied to lead, soap, and cheese as well as wool. 2 wey made a sack, 12 a load, and 24 a last.
The wool wey was later figured as 2 hundredweight of 8 stone of 14 avoirdupois pounds each.
The Suffolk wey was 356 avoirdupois pounds. It was used as a measure for butter and cheese.Volume
As a measure of volume for dry commodities, it denoted roughly 40 bushels or.
