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1

In the Netherlands, 20^th century (UN 1966), two units:

a unit of capacity, = 3,000 liters (about 600 imperial gallons)
a unit of mass, = 2 metric tonnes.

2

In England, a unit of mass, = 4,368 pounds avoirdupois.

As a Unit of Capacity
Commodity	Quantity
soap, codfish, white herrings, meal, pitch, tar	12 barrels. But by the 20^th century for meal it may have shrunk to 11.
gunpowder	24 barrels or 2400 pounds
grain or rapeseed	10 quarters = 80 bushels
wool	12 sacks

As a Unit of Count
Commodity	Quantity
red herrings	20 cade = 10,000, circa 1660. But the 16^th century cade was 620, so the last was 12,400.
stockfish	1000
dogstones	3 pair
flax, feathers	1 Hundred
leather	1200
hides	144

Sources

And the Hundred of Herring shall be accounted by six Score, and the Last by ten Thousand.

31 Edward III Statute 2, Chapter 2. (1357)
Statutes of the Realm, vol I, page 354.

Herrings,
white full or shotteny^e          last cont. xij bar^lls
red                                      the cade cont. five hundred
red                                      the last cont. xx cades

[for export]
Spratts the Cade cont a thounsad

Winter Herrings red full, the cade cont. five hundred;
the Last cont. 20 cades or ten thousandsand

“A Subsidy granted to the King of Tonnage and Poundage and other summes of Money payable upon Merchandize Exported and Imported.”
A statute from the 12th year of Charles II, 1660. The selection is from the Booke of Rates, which is not part of the statute proper but developed from it. Both are printed in:
Statutes of the Realm, Volume 5: 1628-80, John Raithby, editor.
London: 1819.

LAST; of Ashes for Sope, Cod-Fish; white-Herrings, Meal, Pitch and Tar, 12 Barrels. Of Red-Herrings, 20 Cades; Stock-fish 1000; of Dog-stones three pair; Flax, or Feathers 17 Hundred; of Gun-powder 24 barrels (or 2400l. weight) of Leather 120 Dicker; of Hydes 12 Dozen; of Corn, or Rape-seed 10 Quarters; and of Wool 12 Sacks.

Worlidge, 1704.

Dry or corn measure... 80 bushels [=] 1 last. 11 barrels [=] 1 last of meal.

Crawford's Handbook for the Grocery and Kindred Trades.
Edinburgh: Wm. Crawford & Sons, Ltd. 1922.
Page 150.

3

In the Shetland Islands, Scotland, ? – mid-20^th century, a unit of land area = 18 merks (or marks), between somewhat less than 18 to 36 acres.

John J. Graham.
The Shetland Dictionary.
Stornoway, Lewis, Scotland: The Thule Press, 1979.

Page 46.

4

= 12 barrels (180 lispunds) = 24 meils (144 lispunds).

5

In Orkney, Scotland, a unit of mass = 24 meils.