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Expenses — 52s. 2d. in the wages and robe of the gardener by the year. 

 And 60s. 8d. in the wages of the Serjeant by the year. And 10s. 

 in the robe of the same. And 43s. 8d. paid to the Warden of 

 the Gaol of Flet, for the yearly farm due to him. And 39s. 8£d. 

 in the stipends of divers [men] working in the garden, as well 

 for the vines as for herbs, leeks, and other curtilages [and] 

 for carrying and spreading dung. And 5s. 7d. in two bushels 

 of beans [and] seed of hemp, onions, and garlic bought for 

 planting. And 22d. in the stipend[s] of [men] helping to 

 make verjuice with salt bought for the same. And 3s. 2jd. 

 " in 2 insitis ( =grafts) de Rule, 2 de Martin, 5 de Caloel, et 

 3 de pesse pucele," bought for planting. And 2s. 6d. in 

 mending the paling of the garden. And 44s. 4^d. in one " kay" 

 newly made for the support of the paling from the stable to 

 the north head of the greater ditch in the garden. And 

 8s. ojd. in small fish, small frogs, and eels bought for the 

 sustenance of the pikes (luporum aquaticorum) . 27s. in 100 

 "caloels," 100 " pesse puceles," 20b "Rules," 300 "Martyns," 

 [and] 300 " quoynz," bought and sent to the Earl at Ambr' 

 (Amesbury, Wilts ?) with the carriage of the same. . . . 

 17s. o£d. in 1500 onions [and] ij load of garlic bought and sent 

 to Camford : and us. in the carriage of the same. 



Many of the pears mentioned in this and other accounts 

 appear to be of French origin. The " caloel " occurs in other 

 places as " cailloel " for "' caillou," a pebble, so called, let us 

 hope, from its shape and not from its hardness. The " pesse," 

 or " passe pucelle," is also evidently French. The " S. Rule " 

 pear was probably named after St. Regolo, or Rule, who 

 was Bishop of Aries, and first Bishop of Senlis. Rochelle, 

 in France, was celebrated for its pears, and one year the 

 Sheriffs of London imported some from thence to present to 

 Henry III. Further information regarding these varieties of 

 pears, and the prices paid for them, is to be gained from some 

 othermost interesting documents preserved in the Record Office. 

 These papers are bills for the fruit bought for Henry III. and 

 Edward I) at different times. The earliest is probably for 

 the year 1223 ; the beginning of the document is missing, but 

 it is dated in the seventh year of some King unnamed. From 

 the internal evidence afforded by the names of places and 

 dates, it appears that Henry III. is the King. He was still a 

 minor, and his movements during the seventh year of his reign 

 are uncertain, but the itineraries of all the other possible Kings 



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