42 ESSEX AS A WINE-PRODUCING COUNTY. 



of wine liaving been sent up to London from Maldon in the year 



named. These entries! run as follows : — 24 



" Et in ij Vineis de Mealdona faciend' et Vestitura et 

 solidat' Vineatoris — lij 5." 



" Et in xvj Toneir em'dis et in conductu' usq' ad Alealdona 

 de Mealdona ad Lond' — x 5. . . ."25 



An anonymous writer recently made the following state- 

 ments -^ as to the former existence of vineyards at Great and 

 Little MapJestead : — 



" In Great Maplestead, we find mention of a vineyard in 

 1252, when John de Hoding granted to Sarah de Martnall and 

 Isabella, her daughter, all his lands in Mapletrested, wliich he 

 had of his nephew, Ralph de Hoding, namely the third part of 

 two carucates of arable, and alder ground called ' le Rede fen" 

 with a mill below it, and a vineyard. This vineyard was 

 probably situated on the slope of the hill, above Hull's Mill, in 

 Great Maplestead. 



The neighbouring parish of Little Maplestead also had a 

 vineyard ; for, in a deed without date of the time of Edward I., 

 Robert de Harlow, of Little Maplestead, quit-claims to the 

 Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, living at Little Maple- 

 stead Hall (or, as it was then called, ' le Hospital'), the annual 

 rent of twelve pence arising from a parcel of land in Hokholt, 

 near their vineyard." 



Mr. C. Roach Smith has published -7 extracts, supplied to 

 him by Mr. Joseph Hurtt, from the Public Records on this 

 subject as follows : — 



Hadlcy. Extent 31 Edward /. [/JOJ.] Liberi tenentes. 

 Johannes France3s tenet i messuagium cS:c. ; et predictus 

 "Johannes et omnes alii tenentes levabunt fenum in prato 

 domini et habebiint 12 lagenas cervisie vel 12 d. et fodiet in 

 vineis i dolam que continet in longitudine 4 pedes et in 

 latitudine 3 perticatas. Item colliget uvas per i diem per se 

 vel alium huminem et tunc habebit cibum et potum de 

 domino. 



24 See Maf^miiii Rotulum Sacccirii, vel Mat^nitiu Rotulum Pipiv, &c., edited by the Rev. 

 Joseph Hunter, F.S..A., (London, Records Commission, 80 , 1833), p. 135. 



25 Apparently these passages may be translated : — "And in making two vineyards of 

 Maldon, and in clothing and wages of the vineyard keeper — 52 shillings. . . .And in 

 " buying sixteen tuns and conveying them to Maldon and from Maldon to London - 10 

 " shillings." 



26 East Anglian, n.s., iii. (i88g-go), p. 157. 



27 Collectanea Antigua, vi., pp. 101-102. I have been unable, even with the kind 

 assistance of Mr. Salisbury, to discover the originals of these documents at the Record 

 Office. 



