ON VINEYARDS. 
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As I have not the leaft pretenfion to antiquarian knowledge, 
it would ill become me to endeavour to enter into this debate ; 
A a 2 and. 
Vineyards ‘either to have been orchards^ with Sir Robert Atkins, or rather, accord- 
ing to his own particular fentiments, currant-gardens : In fhort, any thing elfe but 
true and proper Vineyards.’ To thefe remarks of Mr. Barrington, Mr. Pcege re- 
plied in a fecond Memoir, in the third volume of the Archceologia^ with which 
Mr. Barrington not being fatisfied, he gave in a paper on the fubjedl in the fame 
volume, to confider and anfwer Mr. Pegge’s obfervations, and fo the matter then 
refted. Mr. Pegge, however, has fince informed me, by Letter, that Dr. Stukeley^ 
in Itin. p. 48, fpeaks of a Vineyard near Chipping-Norton, William Thsrne, col. 
2036, of another in Kent, and that Madox, in his Hijl. of the Exchequer, i p. 364, 
writes, that the Sheriffs of Northarnptonflnre and Leiceferjhire were allowed, in their 
account, ‘ for the livery of the King’s Vine-dreffer at Rockingha 7 n, and for necef- 
faries for the Vineyard.’ He further adds, that the late Dean of Ely, Dr. Tho- 
mas, imparted to him the following extracts from the Archieves of that church ; 
£. s. d. 
Exitus Vineti - -- -- -- -- -2153^ 
Ditto, Vineae - -- -- -- -- -ioi2 2i 
Ten bufhels of Grapes from the Vineyard --076 
SevenDoliaMufti fromthe Vineyard, 12 Ed. II. 15 i o 
Wine fold for - -- -- -- -- - 1120 
Verjuice - -- -- -- -- -- i 70 
One Dolium, and one pipe filled with new wine, T 
and fuppofed at Ely J 
For wine out of this Vineyard - -- --122 
For verjuice from thence - - - - -- 0160 
No wine, but verjuice made 9 Ed. IV. 
It appears plainly, fays Mr. Pegge, from thefe extraAs, firft, that in the lati- 
tude of Ely grapes would fometimes ripen, and the convent made wine of them, 
and 
