.A. D.I 156. 331 



Winchefter, however, appears to have been confidered by another au- 

 thor of this age, as the moll famous place in England for wine *. [//, 

 Huntind.f. 171 a.] 



Chefter is, according to William, \f. 164 b] fituated in a poor 

 country, producing fcarcely any wheat : but there is abundance of cattle 

 and fifli : the poor live on milk and butter, the rich on flelh ; and bread 

 made of barley or rye f is thought a dainty. Some ti-ade with Ireland 

 fupplies the place with fuch neceflaries as Nature has denied to it. 



A more flattering pidure of Chefler is drawn by a monk of the fame 

 age, caried Lucian, who fiys, that it is enriched and adorned by its river, 

 and that fhips come to it from Aquitaine, Spain, Ireland, and Germany, 

 whereby the citizens are furnifhed with all good things, and are enabled 

 to drink wine frequently, plentifully, and profufely. \^ap, Canid. Brit, 



P' 459-] 



Donewic {Dunwich) is called by William of Newburgh [L. ii, c. 30] 

 a fixmous fea-port town, llored with various kinds of riches ^. 



Norwic is called by William of Malmfbury [f. 136 a] a populous 

 town, famous for its commerce. 



Linn is defcribed by William of Newburgh [L. iv, c. 7] as a city 

 (' urbs') diftinguifhed for commerce and abundance, the refidence of 

 many wealthy Jews, and reforted to by foreign veflels. 



Lincoln is celebrated by Alexander Necham, a poet of this century, 

 [rt/i. Camd. Brit. p. 404] as the fupport of the adjacent country, and 

 ftored with good things. The canal made by Henry I (fee above, p. 318) 

 iTfiade this city, though far from the fea, acceflible to foreign veflels, and 

 gave it the command of an extenfive inland navigation, whereby it be- 

 came one of the mofl populous feats of home and foreign trade in Eng- 

 land. [IV: Malmjb. Gcfta porit. f. 1 65 b.] 



Grimfby is noted by the Norwegian (or Icelandic) writers as an em- 

 porium reforted to by merchants from Norway, Scotland, Orkney, and 

 the Weftern iflands. \Orkneyvigafaga, p. 152.] 



York had been repeatedly deftroyed, by the furies of war, by the ven- 

 geance of William the Conqueror, and lailly by a cafual conflagration 



* Many proofs mi^bt be adduced to fhow, that f In the original, _/7//^o ; a word not in the die- 

 vines were cultivated to a greater extent in feveral tioiiarics orgloffaries, and which Fleetwood {^Chron. 

 parts of this country formerly than now, and that preciof. prices for 13S7] fays, he knows not. But 

 confiderable quantities of wine were made from a former proprietor of niv copy of Flvtwocd ob- 

 thcm. See the extratl from Domefday book, fervcs, in a manufcrlpt note, that he finds /f/it-o 

 above,. p. 305, a:id more inllances from the fame generally ufed by the writers of thofe ages for 

 record, colic. ftcd by Spehnan. [^Gloff'. vo. Arpen- rye. 



r.is. — Bctla H'lji. ecclej. L. \, c. I.] In the reign \ la the reign of Kingjolin, Dunwich paid 



of Henry III the bilhops of Lincoln and Bath about twice as much rent to the king as any other 



had vineyaidb ; and in that of Edward III the town upon the neighbouring coall. [Brady on 



earl of Lancafter had vineyards in the neighbour- burghs, Ap/ieriJ. p. 11.] But it would be too 



)u)od of Leiccfter. [3/,.-//;..-cV Hi/i. of the cxchcq. ra(h to infer from that circumllance, that it was 



c. xi, § 2. — Kny^htcn, col. 2554.] twice as opulent. 



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