 Translations of the Assize of Weights and Measures, an English statute generally dated to the 13th century, indicate a passage as dealing with standardized units of garlic production, sale, and taxation — the hundred of 15 ropes of 15 heads each – but the Latin version of the text may refer to herring rather than garlic.In his "Natural History", Pliny gives a list of scenarios in which garlic was considered beneficial ("N.H." xx.23).