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… to settle the price of cultural goods Witnessing a Custom house sale of ships ‘by inch of candle’ 2 in 1662 London, Samuel Pepys recorded the rumpus caused by the novel method of auction: ‘After dinner, we met and went to see sold the Weymouth … John Worlidge, Dictionarium Rusticum & Urbanicum (London: J. Nicholson, 1704) entry: inch of candle, unpaginated. 3 . Samuel Pepys, The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ed. Robert Latham and William Matthews (London: Bell and Hyman, 1990), Vol. III, …
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