148 CIDER APPLES. 



present for Princes." It completely supplanted the Gennet Moyk, 

 which had before held the palm in public favour, and indeed for 

 the time being, all other cider apples were thrown into the shade. 

 How widely it was cultivated is well shewn from the following 

 extract from a M.S. in the Bodleian Library, at Oxford, entitled 



" The History of Gloster, or the Antiquities, Memoirs, aitd 

 Annals of ye ancient City and Royal Dukedom 

 of Gloster ft om its original to the present time'" 



by Abel Wantner, Citizen of Gloster, 1714 : 



" Dimock and Kemply, before mentioned, are 

 two of the most note'edst parishes in England for 

 making the most and best rare Viniim Dimocuum, 

 or that transcendant Liquor, called Redstrake Sider, 

 not much inferior to the best French wines. And so 

 plentiful that old Master Wyniat, of the Grainge, 

 (a worthy gentleman and a noble housekeeper, ) 

 hath caused but one apple to be gathered from each 

 Apple Tree growing in his own Grounds, and with the 

 Liquor thereof he hath made a whole hogshead 

 reare good Sider." 



Furley MS., Vol. iv.,Jol. 196, p. 2. 



This extract appears in the parish Register of Dymock, but 

 without the reference and date here given. 



The reputation of the Redstreak apple began to decline about 

 the middle of the i8th Century. Its cider, though sweet and 

 pleasant, had not much strength, and would not keep well, " Its 

 Liquor," Nourse describes, as " of noble colour and smell, but 

 withal very luscious and fulsome. They who drink it will find 

 their stomachs pall'd sooner by it, than warmed and enliven'd." 

 In justice to the Herefordshire cider makers, it must however be 

 stated, that its cider was thought from the very first to be inferior 

 in strength and quality, to that made from many other kinds of fruit. 

 " Gennet Moyle makes the best cyder in m.y judgment, and such as 

 I do prefer before the much commended Redsti-eaK d^^ says 

 Dr. Beale (1656), and Evelyn, and the writers in the Appendix to his 

 '-'■Pomona^^ say as much for several other apples, as Woodcock, Hagloe 

 Crab, Underleaf, Styre, Mitst, Bronisborroiv Crab, ^-c. The 



