For Jenny and anyone else who may be interested, Heather has enlightened me as to exactly what a "bow" or "bowl" is in Scots measures. Puts a new light on "thrie bow tyme meill" or "three bowls of thyme meal" Loretta From: Heather Grimwood [mailto:heather.grimwood@xtra.co.nz] Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 4:54 PM To: Loretta Layman Subject: Re: [AYR] Kilmarnock Kirk Session Minutes, note 68 a bowl /boll is three bushells and three pecks.......remembered from tables on back of exercise books studied in hours of boredom!!.....Heather