Cider the Inft ofDrinlge. 
and adds that to be the fealon why many 
places irj that Country, and ellewhere in 
England, are called Vineyards: All thefe 
Teftimonis may be as well for the planting 
of Orchards for Cider , as Vineyards for 
Wine 5 the name Wine might be then uled 
for that Liquor, as now for other: and the 
preference they then gave to the Wines of 
GloHcejler.-Jhire before other, in not being 
fo tart, rs a good Argument that thofe 
Wines were Cider, becdufd the Spontaneous 
Trees or Wildings of that Country might 
very well yield a better Drink then, than 
the Apples', formerly planted in the Or¬ 
chards of other parts of England j it being 
but of late years that pleafant Fruit, or 
good Cider- Fcuit either, have been propa¬ 
gated in molt parts of this Country 3 and 
in feme places not any to this day. * 
The fame of Cider , if Irotn Sicera , is 
but a general name for an inebriating or 
an intoxicating Drink, and may argue their 
ignorance in thole times of any other name 
than Wine for that Liquor or Juice in the 
Saxon or Norman Language, either of thofe 
Nations being unwilling (its probable') to 
ufe a Bfitifi) name for fo p'leafing a Drink, 
they not affecting the Britain* y made ule 
Of few of their words: But fincethat, that 
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