Bacon on the Strawberry. 137 



to be without any English work equally 

 early, which deals with the malt liquor, 

 brewed from hops, in use during the Tudor 

 period. 



The raspberry, under the name of the 

 hindberry, occurs in the eleventh century 

 vocabulary, which we have so often had 

 occasion to cite, as a herb. It was probably 

 the wild variety, and may have been used 

 for distillation. The strawberry is in the 

 same list. 



The white strawberry Bacon, in his Sy!va\ 

 Sylvarum (1627), seems to prefer to the red,\ 

 just as he does the white currant, white rasp \ 

 berry, and white grape. But the ordinary 

 red variety is certainly the favourite at 

 present, and has a superior flavour. The 

 white, or rather pink, one is very common 

 in Ireland, and used to be much grown 

 also here. 



In the Privy Purse Expenses of Henry VII., 

 under June 3oth, 1493, a woman receives 

 is. %d. for bringing the king cherries and 

 strawberries. This amount was, as in other 

 cases, not the price of the fruit, but "in 



