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10 bushels of grapes from the vineyard 076 

 7 Dolia Musti from the vineyard, 



12Edw. II. . I-,;-' 15 1 o 



Wine sold for H - 1 ^ f >> j?u 1 12 

 Verjuice . ' il &i '&v~ 'u^tii: 1 7 o 

 One dolium, and one pipe filled with 

 new wine, and supposed at Ely. 

 For wine out of this vineyard ($?'' I 2 2 

 For verjuice from thence : v< * "* : V 016 

 No wine, but verjuice made, 9^Edw. IV. 

 From this it appears plainly, that at Ely grapes would 

 sometimes ripen, and the convent made wine of them ; 

 and when they did not, they converted them into verjuice, 

 which was much more used in diet formerly than at 

 present. 



William of Malmsbury mentions the county of Glou- 

 cester as excelling every other part of the country, in the 

 twelfth century, in the number and richness of its vine- 

 yards. The first Earl of Salisbury planted a vineyard in 

 his park adjoining Hatfield-house, Hertfordshire which 

 was in existence when Charles the First was conveyed 

 there a prisoner to the army. 



Evelyn says in his Diary, May 8, 1654 : " Returning 

 from Hackney, I visited one Mr. Tomb's garden; it has a 

 vineyard, planted in strawberry borders, staked at ten 

 foot distances." On the 26th Sept. the following year, 

 he observes, " I went to see Col. Blount's subterranean 

 warren, and drank of the wine of his vineyard, which was 

 good for little." He also writes, " 23 Aug. 1670, went to 

 Alburie to see how that garden proceeded. The canall 

 was now digging and the vineyard planted." In some 

 situations the very vines themselves tell us where our 

 forefathers cultivated them. In a park near Berkeley, in 

 Gloucestershire, tendrils of vines are found springing up 

 yearly among the grass, from one of which a cutting is 



