Chapter MATT to MAUND of M by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary

Pegolotti, 4.

1563.—“The value of stones is only because people desire to have them, and because they are scarce, but as for virtues, those of the loadstone, which staunches blood, are very much greater and better attested than those of the emerald. And yet the former sells by maos, which are in Cambay … equal to 26 arratels each, and the latter by ratis, which weigh 3 grains of wheat.”—Garcia, f. 159v.

1598.—“They have another weight called Mao, which is a Hand, and is 12 pounds.” —Linschoten, 69; [Hak. Soc. i. 245].

1610.—“He was found … to have sixtie maunes in Gold, and euery maune is five and fiftie pound weight.”—Hawkins, in Purchas, i. 218.

1611.—“Each maund being three and thirtie pound English weight.”—Middleton, ibid. i. 270.

[1645.—“As for the weights, the ordinary mand is 69 livres, and the livre is of 16 onces; but the mand, which is used to weigh indigo, is only 53 livres. At Surat you speak of a seer, which is 1m livres, and the livre is 16 onces.”—Tavernier, ed. Ball, i. 38.]

c. 1665.—“Le man pese quarante livres par toutes les Indes, mais ces livres ou serres sont differentes selon les Pais.”—Thevenot, v. 54.

1673.—“A Lumbrico (Sconce) of pure Gold, weighing about one Maund and a quarter, which is Forty-two pounds.”—Fryer, 78.

„ “The Surat Maund … is 40 Sear, of 20 Pice the Sear, which is 37l.
The Pucka Maund at Agra is double as much, where is also the
Ecbarry Maund which is 40 Sear, of 30 Pice to the Sear.…”

Ibid. 205.

1683.—“Agreed with Chittur Mullsaw and Muttradas, Merchants of this place (Hugly), for 1,500 Bales of ye best Tissinda Sugar, each bale to weigh 2 Maunds, 6½ Seers, Factory weight.”—Hedges, Diary, April 5; [Hak. Soc. i. 75].

1711.—“Sugar, Coffee, Tutanague, all sorts of Drugs, &c., are sold by the Maund Tabrees; which in the Factory and Custom

house is nearest 6ml. Avoirdupoiz. … Eatables, and all sorts of Fruit … &c. are sold by the Maund Copara of 7ml. … The Maund Shaw is two Maunds Tabrees, used at Ispahan.”—Lockyer, 230.

c. 1760.—Grose says, “the maund they weigh their indicos with is only 53 lb.” He states the maund of Upper India as 69lb.; at Bombay, 28 lb.; at Goa, 14 lb.; at Surat, 37½ lb.; at Coromandel, 25 lb.; in Bengal, 75 lb.

1854.—“… You only consent to make play when you have packed a good maund of traps on your back.”—Life of Lord Lawrence, i. 433.

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