Editing Pound (mass) (section)

==== Merchants' pound ====
The merchants' pound (''mercantile pound'', {{lang|la|libra mercantoria}}, or ''commercial pound'') was considered to be composed of 25 rather than 20 [[Tower pound|Tower shillings]] of 12 [[pennyweight|pence]].<ref name=tract>{{Citation |editor-last=Ruffhead |editor-first=Owen |editor-link=Owen Ruffhead |title=The Statutes at Large |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tKZFAAAAcAAJ |volume=&nbsp;I: From Magna Charta<!--sic--> to the End of the Reign of King Henry the Sixth. To which is prefixed, A Table of the Titles of all the Publick and Private Statutes during that Time |location=London |publisher=Mark Basket for the Crown |date=1763a |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=tKZFAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA148 148–149] }}. {{in lang|en}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|la}}&nbsp;& {{in lang|nrf}}</ref> It was equal to 9,600 wheat grains (15 tower ounces or 6,750 grains)<ref name="zupko">{{cite book|last=Zupko|first=Ronald Edward|author-link=Ronald Edward Zupko|title=Dictionary of Weights and Measures for the British Isles: The Middle Ages to the 20th Century|publisher=DIANE Publishing|isbn=0-87169-168-X|date=1 December 1985}}</ref> and was used in England until the 14th century<ref name="zupko"/> for goods other than [[#Tower pound|money]] and [[#Apothecary's pound|medicine]] ("[[electuaries]]").<ref name=tract/>