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reward," otherwise royal largess. This 

 fact is nowhere, perhaps, more curiously 

 exemplified, than in another item in the 

 same record, where a woman gets five 

 shillings on November 7th, 1494, for two 

 glasses of water. 



I think it exceedingly probable that both 

 the strawberry and the raspberry were at first 

 only known in this country in their wild 

 varieties still surviving. In Shakespeare's 

 time both descriptions of fruit had doubt- 

 less been improved ; and he probably 

 transfers to the previous century his obser- 

 vation of the strawberries which grew in 

 Holborn in his own day, where he makes 

 the Duke of Gloucester, in Richard III., 

 ask the Bishop of Ely to send for some of 

 the "good strawberries" which the Duke 

 said he had seen lately growing in his lord- 

 ship's garden. The glimpses which we shall 

 presently gain of the much earlier garden of 

 Lord Lincoln in that locality, and of the 

 royal grounds at Westminster, with the 

 cherries and peaches which they yielded, 

 taken with the fact that Holborn was the 



