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Sean Flynt · Posted: Sun 16 May, 2004 6:30 pm Post subject: How long was it?

An Elizabethan source describes the axes of the Gallowglass as "six feet" long. But was the Elizabethan foot 12"? More? Less?

Steve Fabert · Posted: Sun 16 May, 2004 7:21 pm Post subject:

Apparently the English unit of one foot has been fixed at twelve inches, with 5,280 equaling a mile, since at least 1595 when an act of Parliament confirmed these units, during the reign of Elizabeth I. See http://users.aol.com/jackproot/met/spvolas.html

As I read down that page, it appears that an English foot was defined as twelve inches at least as far back as 1215.

Sean Flynt · Posted: Mon 17 May, 2004 6:19 am Post subject:

Eeexxxcellent! Thanks, Steve! For that, you deserve that lowland basket-hilt...