Just you weight…
I suppose I ought to explain the image in the page header. It’s part of the Haddington set of weights and measures from 1707, which is a particularly nice set including Avoirdupois weights (the one illustrated is a 2lb - 2 pounds for those who don’t understand all that non-metric stuff - about 0.91kg), Troy weights (like a set of nested brass flower pots), pint and Wine Gallon (smaller than an Imperial gallon) measures and a big brass bushel. In addition we have at least one measure that pre-dates these: a Scots pint. Scots pints, like Scots miles were larger by a fair amount than their English equivalents.
What is the significance of these weights and measures? Apart from their indication of the role of the local burgh in regulating trade, ensuring that traders gave good measure and didn’t cheat their customers, they have a particular political significance. By Article XVII of the Act of Union, English weights and measures were to be used throughout the newly-established Kingdom of Great Britain (”…the same weights and measures shall be used throughout the United Kingdom as are now established in England, and standards of weights and measures shall be kept by those burghs in Scotland to whom the keeping the standards of weights and measures, now in use there, does of special right belong; all which standards shall be sent down to such respective burghs from the standards kept in the exchequer at Westminster, subject, nevertheless, to such regulations as the Parliament of Great Britain shall think fit.”).
Scots money, by the way, was worth less than the English equivalent - one pound Scots was worth 1s 8d (about 8.5p, one twelfth of a pound Sterling).