THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE APPLE AND PEAR. 
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In the Dull Dyfed, the Dimetian, or West Wales Code, Book II., Chapter 35, entitled 
“ of furniture.” 
Section 81.—“ An apple tree is three score pence in value.” 
Section 81.—“ A crab tree is thirty pence in value.” 
In the Dull Gwent, or Gwentian Code, Book II., Chapter 18, entitled “ The worth of petty 
utensils.” 
Section 61.—“ An apple tree three score pence.” “ A crab tree thirty pence.” 
In the Cyforithian Amrywial, or Anomalous Laws, Book XIV., Chapter 31, “of land.” 
Section 9.—“ All lands are to be shared but these, a bog, oak wood, and a quarry. And these erections are to be 
in common among Brothers, an orchard, a mill, and a wear.” 
In the Leges Walliae, Liber II., Cap. 28, “ De Arboribus.” 
Section X.—“ Pomus dulcis IX. a denarii.” 
Section XI.—“ “ Pomus amara XXX. a denarii.” 
Cap. XXXVII. 
“ De preciis domorum et aliarum rerum.” 
Section XCVIII.—“Pomus dulcis IX. denarios valet.” 
Section XCIX.—“Ramus ejus XXX. denarii.” 
Section C.—“ Pomus amara XXX. denarii.” 
Leges Howeli Boni. 
“ re dulcis pomi ~ LX. 
“ re peris pomi XXX. 
There is no reference to the apple tree in “ The Ancient Institutes of England ..” 
In an alleged account of the “ Antient Saxon rite of coronation as recorded in the time of 
Edgar” (959-975), the following passage is given as forming part of the blessing pronounced by 
the Archbishop or Bishop at a Saxon coronation :— 
“ May the Almighty Lord give thee, O King, from the dew of heaven and the fatness of the earth, abundance of 
“ corn, and wine, and oil. Be thou the Lord of thy brothers and let the sons of thy Mother bow down before thee; let the 
“ people serve thee, and the tribes adore thee. May the Almighty bless thee with the blessings of heaven above, and the 
“ mountains and the valleys ; with the blessings of the deep below; with the blessings of grapes and apples.” 
Wild apple trees were not uncommon in this reign. William of Malmesbury, says, (lib. ii. 
cap. 8), that King Edgar in 973 while hunting in a wood and separated from his followers was 
overcome by an irresistible desire to sleep, and alighting from his horse, he lay down under the 
shade of a wild apple tree. 
Henry of Huntingdon, in describing a quarrel that arose at the Court of Edward the 
Confessor, between two of the sons of Earl Godwin, represents one of them as departing in a 
rage to Hereford, where his brother had ordered a royal banquet to be prepared. “ There he seized 
his brothers attendants and cutting off their heads and limbs, he placed them in the vessels of 
wine, mead, ale, pigment, morat, and cyder.” (Henry of Hunt. Vol. vi. p. 367). It must, however, 
be admitted that although this history was written in 1154, it was not published until 1576, by 
Saville, when it is possible that the last word “ Cyder,” by that time the common drink of 
Herefordshire, may have been added. 
