@article{599323,
      recid = {599323},
      author = {Leadbetter, Charles,},
      title = {The royal gauger or, gauging made easy, as it is actually  practised by the officers of His Majesty's revenue of  excise. In two parts. Part I. Containing the practical  Methods of finding the Area's and Contents of such  Superficies and Solids, as are the Foundation of Gauging.  Also the Established Rules for finding the Contents of all  Sorts of Cisterns, Coppers, Backs, Coolers, Tuns, Stills  and Casks, when full, or Part empty: The Examples being  performed both by the Pen and Sliding Rule: And this not in  Ale, Wine and Malt only, but in the New Duties, viz.  Candles, Sopes, Starch, &c. which have been Duties  subsisting by Law almost 30 Years; and are very  considerable Branches of the Revenue as well as of every  Excise Officer's Duty, tho' yet they have never been so  much as once touch'd upon by any Author. With the Officer's  Duty in the Distillery. Part II. Shewing the necessary  Steps to be taken for obtaining Employment in the Excise,  with authentic Forms of such Certificates, Petitions,  Oaths, &c. as are requisite for that Purpose. Together  with Such Directions for the Officer's Conduct as are  necessary for ascertaining and securing the respective  Duties, to which the following Professions are liable. 1.  Victuallers, 2. By-Brewers, 3. Common-Brewers, 4.  Maltsters, 5. Malt Compounders, 6. Dealers in Cyder, 7.  Wine Importers, 8. Distillers, 9. Tanners, 10. Tawers, 11.  Oil Dressers, 12. Sope-Makers, 13. Chandlers, 14.  Starch-Makers, 15. Paper-Makers, 16. Hop-Planters. A Work  shewing young Officers the Perfection of Skill in  discharging their Trusts, and very advantageius to those  Traders, who would understand how to ascertain the Amount  of the respective Duties to which they are subject, without  depending upon the Skill and Integrity of the King's  Officer. To which is added, Cask-Gauging, &c. as  practis'd at the Port of London. The whole illustrated with  many Copper-Plates, new designed, and much better adapted  to the Subject, than in any Treatise of this Kind extant.  By Charles Leadbetter, Many Years a Gauger in the Royal  Revenue of Excise, now a Teacher of the Mathematicks in  London. [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {printed for E. Wicksteed, at the Black Swan in  Newgate-Street, near Warwick-Lane,},
      address = {London :},
      pages = {[2],xv,[1],178;117,[3]p.,plates ;},
      year = {1739},
      note = {With a final leaf of advertisements.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/599323},
}