Winchester Quarter
Chugalug -
'The Price of Wheat in England: 1259-1975' ( the book was published in 1983). Calibrated in Shillings per Winchester Quarter (no, I don't know either)
The Winchester Measure was a system of weights and measures used in the Kingdom of Wessex in Anglo-Saxon times, and was adopted by Henry VII as the English Standard
There were similar unusual measures here in Scotland. My father still got an allowance of oatmeal for his porridge well into the 1970's which was (if my memory is correct), a firlot every 3 months.