FRUIT. SWEETMEATS. 465 



I have found almonds, described as Jordan and Valentia, 

 in twelve years, the average being is. $\d. the pound ; bitter 

 almonds thrice, at is. 4d. Prunelloes are found twice, at 

 \s.\\\d. A melon costs 3^. in 1649, an< 3 two are bought at 

 yd. each in 1650. In 1651, two pounds of dried pears are 

 purchased at is. In 1621, French barley costs 4</. a pound; 

 in 1654, $d. 



Sugar-candy, brown and white, is occasionally bought, by 

 the pound from is. %d. to 2s. 8^., by the ounce at i\d 

 Comfits, i.e. sugar flavoured with spice or scent, are found. 

 In 1587, they cost is. yd. the pound; in 1602, is. ^d. In 

 1605, cinnamon comfits are at is. 6d., coriander and orange 

 at is. ^d. In 1614, cinnamon, orange, ginger, violet and 

 rosemary, sweet-fennel and musk, all at is. 8d. t are bought by 

 Lord Spencer. In 1616, almond and oliander 1 comfits are 

 at is. 4d. In 1623, the same nobleman buys a greater variety; 

 cinnamon, ginger, orange, violet, carroway, sweet-fennel, cori- 

 ander, and lemon. In 1649, sweetmeats are at 3^. ; in 1650, 

 at 3-f. and 3^. 6d. In 1654 I find cherry and raspberry con- 

 fections at 2s. 8d., and in 1684 carroway comfits are at is.^d. 

 the pound. 



In 1654, oringade is at is. the pound. In 1605, biscuit is 

 at is. 4d. ; in 1616, now called Naples, at 2s. 6d. This is 

 probably much the same as marchpane at is. in the latter year. 

 Marmalade is bought in 1602, 1607, and 1619 by the Archers 

 of Theydon Gernon at 2s. 2d., 2s., and is. $d. the box. Wet 

 citron, I suppose preserved in sugar, is $s. 6d. a pound in 

 1649 ; candied citron, 2s. 8d. in 1689. In 1697, dried citron is 

 2s. #d. ; candied orange and lemon, 2s. ; dried cherries, $s. 6d. 

 In 1615 eringo roots are bought at 4*. the pound, and treacle 

 in 1618 at yd. Liquorice costs about ft^d. a pound. 



Among other miscellaneous foreign produce are olives, 

 capers and anchovies. The first is generally bought by the 



1 I suspect that ' oliander/ \%hich I copied with doubt, is a scribe's mistake for 

 coriander. I cannot conceive that the oleander could make any sweetmeat what- 

 ever. 



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