The '''fotmal''' ({{langx|ang|fotmael}}, <small>{{abbr|lit.|literally}}</small>&nbsp;"foot-measure"; {{langx|la|fotmal}}), also known as the '''foot''' (''{{lang|la|pes}}''), '''formel''', '''fontinel''', and '''fotmell''', was an English unit of variable weight particularly used in measuring production, sales, and duties of lead.{{sfnp|Gill|1998|p=132}} __NOTOC__ Under the {{circa|lk=no|1300}} Assize of Weights and Measures, it was equal to 70 Merchants' pounds and made up {{frac|1|30}} of a load of lead.<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> Elsewhere, it was made of 70 avoirdupois pounds and made up {{frac|1|24}} load.{{sfnp|Gill|1998|p=132}} In 16th-century Derbyshire the fotmal was evidently divided into "boles" and made up {{frac|1|30}} of a fother, meaning it was considered to be 84 avoirdupois pounds.{{sfnp|Gill|1998|p=132}}

It continued to be used until the 16th century.{{sfnp|Gill|1998|p=132}}

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===Bibliography=== * {{Citation|last=Gill|first=M.C.|author2-last=Harvey|author2-first=W.S.|display-authors=1|ref={{harvid|Gill|1998}}|date=1998|contribution=Weights and Measures Used in the Lead Industry|title=British Mining|volume=61|pages=129–140|publisher=Northern Mine Research Society|location=Sheffield|contribution-url=https://www.nmrs.org.uk/assets/pdf/BM61/BM61-129-140-weights.pdf}}

Category:Obsolete English units of measurement Category:Units of mass