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Sixteenth century woodcut of an uhappy man

Question 2: Measure for measure . . .

Incorrect

The right answer is ‘One Furlong’.

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A furlong was (and still is) 220 yards, or one eighth of a mile. A league was an informal measurement of about three miles, while the measurements of a chain and a metre didn’t exist in Tudor times.

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