"Anchors" probably are ankers. This traditional liquid measure was about
eight English gallons. The Bremen anker was 7.97 English gallons. The
Danish anker was 8.29 English gallons.
For archaic measurements see Ronald Edward Zupko, _British Weights &
Measures: A history from antiquity to the seventeenth century_, University
of Wisconsin Press 1977.
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