Wey (unit)
The wey or weight was an English unit of weight and dry volume by at least 900 AD, when it began to be mentioned in surviving legal codes.
Weight
A statute of Edgar the Peaceful set a price floor on wool by threatening both the seller and purchaser who agreed to trade a wool wey for less than 120 pence, but the wey itself varied over time and by location. The wey was standardized as 14 stones of 12½ merchants' pounds each by the time of the Assize of Weights and Measures. This wey was applied to lead, soap, and cheese, as well as wool. 2 wey made a sack, 12 a load, and 24 a last.The wool wey was later figured as 2 hundredweight of 8 stone of 14 avoirdupois pounds each.
The Suffolk wey was 356 avoirdupois pounds. It was used as a measure for butter and cheese.