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made fit for use ; and all hop-grounds were 

 required to be entered, on pain of forty shil- 

 lings per acre. In the same act an additional 

 duty of three-pence per pound was laid on 

 all hops imported, over and above other 

 duties ; and hops landed before entry and 

 payment of duty, or without warrant for 

 landing, are, by that act, to be forfeited and 

 burnt ; the ship also to be confiscated, and 

 the person concerned in importing or landing, 

 to forfeit five pounds a hundred weight. 



Hartlib, in his Complete Husbandman, 

 (1659,) says, " that in Queen Elizabeth's 

 time we had hopps from the Low Countries, 

 and that the Frenchman, who writes the 

 Treasure Politick, saith, that it's one of the 

 great deficiencies of England, that hopps will 

 not grow, whereas now it is known that they 

 are the best in the world." However, we 

 find that they were imported, occasionally, 

 as late as the year 1695 ; for 510 cwt. were 

 then brought from Flanders and Holland.* 



Coles notices, in his Paradise of Plants, 

 (1657,) " That hops grow in great plenty in 

 Kent and Essex, where there be men of good 

 worth, whose estates consist in hop-grounds." 



* Hought. 2. 458. 



