A. D. 1524. 63 



north latitude, he gave the land there the name of New France ; but 

 fie returned home without having planted or left any colony there. 

 [Purchases Pilgrimes, V. iv, p. 1603 — Morifoti Orbis viaritimus, L. ii, 



c- 34-] 



We have now the firft flatute made in England for mending a parti- 

 cular highway. [14, 15 Hen. VIII, c. 6.] There being a certain public 

 way in the Wild of Kent, which was much worn out, and alio not fo 

 near and commodious as another in the fame neighbourhood, the lord 

 of the manor was impowered, at his own expenfe, to complete the moft 

 convenient road, after which he might fliut up and inclofe the old road 

 for his own fole benefit. By another law [26 Hen. VUl, c. 7.], the like 

 was done in SulFex. 



Pizarro now failed from Panama, and difcovered the immenfe riches 

 of Peru, where he found vefTels of gold and filver, fine palaces, &c. ; the 

 conqueft of which country was gradually carried on to the vail: emolu- 

 ment of the firfl conquerors, and the perpetual one of the Spanifh court. 



About thefe times many new articles of food and drink were brought 

 into England, &c. fome of which occafioned the following rhyme : 



• (1.) Turkeys, (2) carp<;, (3) hops, (4) piccarel, and (5) beer, 



* Came into England all in one year.' 



Another difiiich of our writers, under the year 1546, runs thus: 



' Hops, reformation, bays, and beer, 

 ' Came into England all in one year.' 



(i) Turkies, or Guinea cocks (as then called by fome, and by others 

 Indian fowls), were faid to have been firft brought into England in this 

 15th year of King Henry VIII, which, though a tender fowl, have fince 

 multiplied exceedingly. 



(2) Carp came hither alfo about the fame time, and are now com- 

 mon, not only in ponds, but in many rivers. Sufl^x is more efpecially 

 famous for the beft. The anonymous author of a work, termed Eng- 

 lifh worthies in church and fiare, 8vo, 1684, fays, ' that Leonard Maf- 

 ' cal, of Plumfi;ed, in Suflex, was the firft who brought over into Eng- 

 ' land, from beyond fea, carps and pippins, about the year 15 14.' 



(3) The ufe of hops in malt liquor came from Artois, which fome 

 fay (though untruly) firft gave that liquor the name of (5) beer, as 

 diftinguifhed from the ancient and fofter malt-liquor called ale: Yet it is- 

 certain, that beer, as a malt-liquor, was known and ufed by that name 

 very long before. 



(4) Piccarel, not very intelligible ; fince we can fijid no other mean- 

 ing of the word but that of young pike, which it is faid was always an 



