ON VINEYARDS. 



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As I have not the least pretension to antiquarian 

 knowledge, it would ill become me to endeavour to 



was pleased to combat Mr. Pegge's notions, and to declare, 

 that he takes the English vineyards " either to have been 

 orchards, with Sir Robert Atkins, or rather, according to 

 his own particular sentiments, currant-gardens : in short, 

 any thing else but true and proper vineyards." To these re- 

 marks of Mr. Barrington, Mr. Pegge replied in a second Me- 

 moir, in the third volume of the Archceologia, with which 

 Mr. Barrington not being satisfied, he gave in a paper on the 

 subject in the same volume, to consider and answer Mr. Pegge's 

 Observations ; and so the matter then rested. Mr. Pegge, 

 however, has since informed me, by letter, that Dr. Stukeley, in 

 Itin. p. 48, speaks of a vineyard near Chipping-Norton ; Wil- 

 liam Thome, col. 2036, of another in Kent ; and that Madox, 

 in his Hist, of the Exchequer, i. p. 364, writes, that the sheriffs 

 of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire were allowed, in their 

 account, " for the livery of the king's Vine-dresser at Rocking- 

 ham, and for necessaries for the vineyard.'' He further adds, 

 that the late dean of Ely, Dr. Thomas, imparted to him the 

 following extracts from the archives of that church : 



£ r, d. 



Exitus Vineti 2 15 3 J 



Ditto, Vineae 10 12 2£ 



Ten bushels of grapes from the vineyard - 7 6 



SevenDoliaMusti from the Vineyard, 12 Ed. II. 15 1 



Wine sold for 112 



Verjuice - - - - - -170 



One Dolium, and one pipe filled with new"! 



wine, and supposed at Ely - - J 



For wine out of this vineyard - - - 1 2 2 



For verjuice from thence - - - 16 

 No wine, but verjuice made 9 Ed. IV. 



It appears plainly, says Mr. Pegge, from these extracts, first, 

 that, in the latitude of Ely', grapes would sometimes ripen, and 



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