Minor Queries.
151. _Quotation from Bacon._--In Lord Campbell's Life of Lord Bacon
(_Lives of the Lord Chancellors_, vol. ii. p. 314.) he gives an extract
from Lord Bacon's speech in the House of Commons, on his proposed bill
for "Suppressing Abuses in Weights and Measures." In the following
sentence there is a word which seems to require explanation:
"The fault of using false weights and measures is grown so
intolerable and common, that if you would build churches you shall
not need for battlements and _halls_, other than false weights of
lead and brass."
The use of lead for the battlements of churches seems obvious enough:
but what can _halls_ mean, unless it be a misprint for _bells_, for
which brass would be required?