LV. Of the Introduction, Progress, State, and Condition, of the Vine in Britain: By Samuel Pegge M.A. S.A.S.

Samuel Pegge

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LV. Of the Introduction, Progress, State, and Condition, of the Vine in Britain: By Samuel Pegge M.A. S.A.S.

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The culture of the vine here in England having been lately under contemplation; I thought it might be worth while, and by no means mal à propos, to examine minutely into the cultivation of it more antiently amongst us; and I here beg leave to present you with the result of my inquiries, as a testimony of that inviolable regard I have so long entertained for your undeserved friendship.

Type: Research Article
Information: Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Original Edition, 1770 1 , 1770 , pp. 319 - 332

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S026134090002703X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1770

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^{page 319 note [a]} Museum Rusticum.

^{page 320 note [b]} Horat. I. Od. XVIII. and Dacier ad loc.

^{page 320 note [c]} Tacitus Vit. Agric. cap. xii.

^{page 320 note [d]} Solinus, cap. xxiv. and Casaub. ad Suet. Domit. cap. vii.

^{page 320 note [e]} Suet. Domit. cap. vii. ver. 14.

^{page 320 note [f]} Casaub. ad Suet. Daceria ad Eutrop. IX. cap. xvii. et ad Aur. Victor. de Caesar. cap. xxxvii.

^{page 321 note [g]} Casaub. and Pitisc. ad Suet. This seems to be the ground of that piece of policy in Mohammed, who denied his disciples the use of wine for this reason amongst others. Prideaux, Life of Mahomet, pag. 106. seq.

^{page 321 note [h]} Casaub. and Pitisc. ad Suet.

^{page 321 note [i]} Musgrave, I. pag. 192. IV. pag. 11.

^{page 321 note [k]} Idem, I. pag. 194. IV. pag, 11, 13.

^{page 322 note [l]} Musgrave, l. c.

^{page 322 note [m]} Caesar, De B. G. Lib. V.

^{page 322 note [n]} Musgrave, I. pag. 94. IV. pag. 11, 13.

^{page 322 note [o]} Vopiscus, pag. 294. ed. Francof.

^{page 322 note [p]} The Annotator upon Rapin, I. pag. 21, observes, “Eutropius has it, Vi-“neas Gallos et Pannones (instead of Britannos) habere permisit.” l. IX. cap. xvii. by which he seems to insinuate, that the copies of Vopiscus may be here corrupted; but this is not probable, for, as we shall shew, the liberty of the vineyard was made very general; indeed, how come the Spaniards otherwise to be included?

^{page 322 note [q]} Vopiscus. ibid.

^{page 323 note [r]} Ad Suet. Domit. cap. vii.

^{page 323 note [s]} Ad Aur. Vict. Caes. cap. xxxvii.

^{page 323 note [t]} See Dacier ad loc.

^{page 323 note [u]} Aur. Vict. Caes. cap. xxxvii. Epitome, cap. xxxvii. Eutrop. IX. cap. xvii.

^{page 323 note [w]} So the MS of Eutropius in the Public Library at Cambridge; and see Vinetus ad loc. see also Victor in Epitome, Vopiscus, and Cellarius, I. pag. 356.

^{page 324 note [x]} Eutropius, Victor, Vopiscus, Univ. Hist. XV. pag. 478.

^{page 324 note [y]} Beda, Hist. Eccl. I. 1.

^{page 324 note [z]} Polychron. pag. 192.

^{page 324 note [a]} Ric. Corin. pag. 13.

^{page 324 note [b]} Amm. Marc. Lib. XV.

^{page 325 note [c]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 170.

^{page 325 note [d]} Other authors do not agree with him; particularly not Mr. Baxter, nor Dr. Musgrave, who, I. pag. 50. observes that the Etymon of Venta is not yet ascertained.

^{page 325 note [e]} Legendum forte latici.

^{page 325 note [f]} Joh. Twynus de Rebus Albionicis, &c. pag. 116.

^{page 325 note [g]} These were planted about 1320. Thorn, Chron. inter X scriptores, col. 2036.

^{page 325 note [h]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 81.

^{page 326 note [i]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 145.

^{page 326 note [k]} Camden, Brit. Col. 147. See also Rapin, I, pag. 31.

^{page 326 note [l]} Lambard's Peramb. of Kent, pag. 419.

^{page 326 note [m]} Philipot Villare Cantianum, pag. 112.

^{page 326 note [n]} Lambarde's Top. Dict. pag. 350.

^{page 327 note [o]} A measure peculiar to Vineyards, meadows, and woods. Spelm. Gloss. in voc.

^{page 327 note ]p]} Camden, Brit. col. CCCCXI. Spelm. Gloss. V. Arpennis.

^{page 327 note [q]} Spelm. ibid.

^{page 327 note [r]} Ibid.

^{page 327 note [s]} “Prior dirationavit apud Scaccarium misericordiam Stephani Vinitoris et “Petri Vinitoris sui.” Annal. Dunst. pag. 94. where Mr. Hearne conjectures we we should read filii sui; but I think without cause, these two persons being probably not father and son, but rather employed in the vineyard of the Priory.

^{page 327 note [t]} Pag. 240. See also R. Swapham, pag. 105, 108, 109. This vineyard was large.

^{page 328 note [u]} Plot, Nat. Hist. of Staff.

^{page 328 note [x]} Grant 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary from Sir William West to his son Edmund, penes Joh. Heath de Derby, Gen.

^{page 328 note [y]} Beda, Eccl. Hist. pag. 42.

^{page 328 note [z]} Ric. Corin. pag. 42.

^{page 328 note [a]} Higden, pag. 180.

^{page 329 note [b]} Britannia, col. XC.

^{page 329 note [c]} Camden, Brit. col. CCLXIX.

^{page 329 note [d]} Virdungus ad Taciti Agric. cap. xii.

^{page 329 note [e]} Twyni Comment. l. c.

^{page 329 note [f]} W. Whitlesey, pag. 130.

^{page 330 note [g]} Philipot Villare, pag. 93.

^{page 330 note [h]} The Modius was 36 gallons, Spelm. Hence the French muyd.

^{page 330 note [i]} Philipot's Visitation, in Herald's office.

^{page 330 note [j]} Somner, Append. pag. 51.

^{page 330 note [k]} I suppose Rhenish, Aun being the proper term for it.

^{page 330 note [m]} Battely's Append. pag. 27.

^{page 331 note [n]} Annal. Dunst. pag. 425.

^{page 331 note [o]} Ibid. pag. 628. 641.

^{page 331 note [p]} Battely's Appendix, pag. 29.

^{page 331 note [q]} Drake's Eboracum, pag. 440.

^{page 331 note [r]} M. Paris, pag. 855.

^{page 331 note [s]} Poictou and Anjou then belonged to England.

^{page 331 note [t]} Annal. Burton. pag. 257.

^{page 332 note [u]} Camden, col. MCCCXII.

^{page 332 note [w]} Rapin, I. pag. 21.

^{page 332 note [x]} Thorn. Chron. col. MMXXXVI.

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