A multitude of thanks to Ellie for sharing this superb web site. Best wishes, Frances Ellie wrote: >Hi Spencer, >I wonder if the word could be strikes? When I was searching the parish register for Yelvertoft, NTH, the vicar has written the price of wheat and barley for that year, in shillings and pence per strike. >The University of Nottingham has a nice page on archaic measures: http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/mss/online/skills/measures/volumes.phtml