Beer. 135 



But there was no edition between 1678 

 and 1691. The account is very interesting, 

 but at the same time purely technical. 



Perry is first named, so far as I can find, 

 in Nicholas Breton's Fantasticks (1626). I 

 quote from the edition of 1661, published 

 under his own name by Matthew Stevenson, 

 with the title of the Twelve Momths ; he 

 mentions it under October thus : " Make 

 your Winter Cider and Perry." 



The pear and apple orchards of Hereford- 

 shire were already famous in the seventeenth 

 century. 



The early manufacture and development 

 of beer among the English is of course con- 

 nected with the culture of the hop plant; 

 and I may refer the reader to what is, 

 perhaps, the first work where the matter is 

 treated technically and specially, though 

 certainly not in detail the Treatise on 

 Brewing, by Hagecius or Hajck (1585), 

 which seems to be the most ancient mono- 

 graph upon this science that we possess. 



The passage where this author describes 

 our drink is not very lengthy, and as it 



