Other possessions included three silver tankards, eighteen silver spoons and three sweetmeat silver spoons.
Professional water-carriers, using carts, packhorses or simply tankards on their backs were a familiar sight in the streets.
They have their own tankard hanging on a hook.
I have a horrible suspicion that some of that beer that overflows finds its way by subterranean channels into someone else's tankard.
Other measures deal with short weight of beer or whether the wrong tankard is used as a measure, but this is a measure of quality.
Secondly, it will no longer be necessary to sell beer in a stamped glass or tankard.
Only a few weeks ago he was rewarded for his loyalty to the firm by being presented by the management with a tankard.
This young man had been awarded an engraved tankard for being the finest of his group of recruits in the armed forces.
