40 A HISTORY OF GARDENING IN ENGLAND. 



hundred nuts for 2s., were brouj:^ht from Paris. Henry was 

 journeying towards England, and at each place, " Arenes," 

 " Abeville,'' " Gart," and " Bolone," he was supplied with 

 large quantities of fruit from Paris daily. On April 27th he 

 was at Dover, and the apples, pears and nuts were still 

 supplied daily until he reached London.* From a similar 

 document for the year 1292-3, of which the following are extracts, 

 the names of several other sorts of pears can be gathered.f 



Memorandum that John the Yeoman of Nicholas the Fruiterer on Tuesday 

 next before the feast of All [Saints ?] led a certain horse-load of fruit 

 from Cambhus, where the ship .... to the Castle of Bcrwyk. First 

 900 " Calluewell " pears, price of the hundred 4s. [and with] the same 

 load 500 "pas pucell," price of the hundred 2S. In paner (paniers?) 

 and cords Sd. In the hire of the horse and expenses of the same and 

 of one man for four days 3s. 6d. Also on Wednesday next before the 

 feast of Saint Edmund the king from the town of Berwyk to [the 

 Castle] 700 Regul' pears, price of the hundred 3s. — also 300 costard 

 apples, price of the hundred I2d In porterage ^d. 



Sent to the Lord the King at Bernwell, on Monday next after Palm Sunday, 

 800 and a-half of Regul' pears, price of the hundred lod. also 900 

 apples, price of the hundred 3d. Also 1200 " Chasteyns " [price] of 

 the hundred 2d. In paniers and cords 6d. In the hire of one horse 

 and expenses of the same, and of one groom going and returning 

 2s. id. sum 13s. I id. proved 



Sent to the Lord the King by Stephen Mewe on Friday after the Lord's 

 Epiphany, 1700 Regul' pears, price of the hundred lod. Also 1400 

 and a-half of " Martin " pears, price of the hundred 8d. Also 700, 

 price of the hundred 3d. . . . 



Sent to the Lord the King in the North parts, 4500 " dieyes" (or dreyes ?) 

 pears, price of the hundred 3d. also 1200 " sorell" pears. . . . 



Sent to the Lord the King at York . . . 6000 " gold knopes " pears, price 

 of the hundred 2d. also 5000 " ChyrfoH" pears. . . . 



The fruit was supplied to Edward I. at Newcastle, York, 

 Pontefract, Berwick, and various places in the North. This date 

 was the commencement of the wars with Scotland, at the time 

 of Bruce and Baliol, when Edward held his parliament at 



* " Item le VI me iour de May a la Tour de Londres pour iic. de poumes 

 ii s. esterlins et pour ic. de poires iis. esterlins et pour iiic. de nois vi d. 

 esterlins." — Exchequer Q.R. Miscellanea, Yg'. 



•j- Extract from Exchequer. Treasury of the Receipt Miscellanea, fj. 

 2021 Edward I. 



