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master, Thomas Leicester, amongst other 

 charges, with 104. I7s. 6d. for 369 pipes of 

 red wine and two pipes of white, which is 

 about 5s. lid. per pipe. (Stow's Survey of 

 London.) 



In the year 1322, when the sentence of 

 banishment against the Spencers was re- 

 moved, the elder Spencer's petition to the 

 King, setting forth the damage he had sus- 

 tained, amongst other things enumerates for- 

 ty tun of wine and ten tun of cider. From 

 these circumstances, we may fairly judge that 

 wine was the principal beverage of the Eng- 

 lish nobility at that period. 



At the present time, the consumption 

 of wine in these dominions is immense, not- 

 withstanding the excessive high duties laid 

 on foreign wines; and in the London Docks 

 there are eleven large vaults for housing of 

 wines until the duties are paid on them: one 

 of these vaults often contains near 30,000 

 pipes. 



Portugal supplies us with both the red 

 and the white port, which take their name 

 from Oporto, from whence they are shipped. 

 Lisbon, which is called after that city, and 

 Bucellas, which is a wine made from the 

 fruit of vines that have been brought from 

 the Rhine, and planted in the neighbourhood 



