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page no 102 note * wangled.
page no 102 note † inconsequential.
page no 103 note * eight-foot-and-a quarter staff.
page no 103 note † The staff is a sexpeda—a measuring-rod vi pedes long. Inasmuch as
xx sexpedae ≡ xxii decempedae ≡ actus = 5 perches ≡ 10 rods ≡ 20 staves, the induction is ineluctable that the inch derived from the sexpeda and was aliquot thereof.