LVI. A Letter to Daniel Wray, Esq; on the Introduction, Progress, State, and Condition, of the Vine in Britain: By the Rev. Samuel Pegge

Samuel Pegge

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LVI. A Letter to Daniel Wray, Esq; on the Introduction, Progress, State, and Condition, of the Vine in Britain: By the Rev. Samuel Pegge

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The culture of the vine 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 enquiries, as a testimony of that inviolable regard I have so long entertained for your undeserved friendship.

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Information: Archaeologia , Volume 1 , Volume 1, Second Edition, 1779 2 , 1779 , pp. 321 - 334

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0261340900022104 [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1779

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^{page 321 note [a]} Museum Rusticum.

^{page 322 note [b]} Horat. I. Od. XVIII. and Dacier ad loc.

^{page 322 note [c]} Tacitus, Vit. Agric. cap. xii.

^{page 322 note [d]} Solinus, cap. xxiv. and Casaub. ad Suet. Domit. cap. vii.

^{page 322 note [e]} Suet. Domit. cap. vii. ver, 14.

^{page 322 note [f]} Casaub. ad Suet, Daceria ad Eutrop. IX. cap. xvii. et ad Aur. Victor. De Caesar. cap, xxxvii.

^{page 323 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 323 note [h]} Casaub. and Pitisc. ad Suet.

^{page 323 note [i]} Musgrave, I. pag. 192. IV. pag, 11.

^{page 323 note [k]} Idem, I. pag. 194. IV. pag. 11. 13.

^{page 324 note [l]} Musgrave, l. c.

^{page 324 note [m]} Caesar, De B. G. Lib. v.

^{page 324 note [n]} Musgrave, I. pag. 94. IV. pag. 11. 13.

^{page 324 note [o]} Vopiscus, pag. 294. ed. Francos.

^{page 324 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? The Palatine MS. of Vopiscus, and Gruter read Britannos.

^{page 324 note [q]} Vopiscus, ibid.

^{page 325 note [r]} Ad Suet. Domit. cap. vii. But in Vopiscus he explains it only post haec.

^{page 325 note [s]} Ad. Aur. Vict. Caes, cap. xxxvii.

^{page 325 note [t]} See Dacier ad loc.

^{page 325 note [u]} Aur. Vict. Caes. cap. xxxvii. Epitome, cap. xxxvii, Eutrop. IX cap. xvii.

^{page 326 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 326 note [x]} Eutropius, Victor, Vopiscus, Univ. Hist. XV. pag, 478.

^{page 326 note [y]} Beda, Hist. Eccl. I. I.

^{page 326 note [z]} Polychron: pag. 192.

^{page 326 note [a]} Ric. Corin. pag. 13.

^{page 326 note [b]} Amm, Marc. lib. xv.

^{page 327 note [c]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 170.

^{page 327 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 327 note [e]} Legendum forte latici.

^{page 327 note [f]} Joh. Twynus de Rebus Albioaici, &c. pag. 116.

^{page 327 note [g]} These were planted about 1 320. Thorn, Chron, inter X scriptores col. 2096.

^{page 327 note [h]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 81.

^{page 328 note [i]} Somner, Antiq. Canterb. pag. 145.

^{page 328 note [k]} Camden, Brit. col. 147. See also Rapin, I. pag. 21.

^{page 328 note [l]} Lambard's Peramb. of Kent, pag. 419.

^{page 328 note [m]} Philipot Villare Cantianum, pag. 112.

^{page 328 note [n]} Lambarde's Top. Dict, pag. 350.

^{page 329 note [o]} A measure peculiar to vineyards, meadows, and woods. Spelm. Gloss. in voc.

^{page 329 note [p]} Camden, Brit. col. CCCCXI. Spelm. G off. v. ARPENNIS.

^{page 329 note [q]} Spelm. ibid.—In London in East Smithfield; Vine-street, Hatton-garden; another in St. Giles's in the Fields. Bagford's letter to Hearne, p. xxv. Add to these, the vineyard of Hounsditch, and Vine-street, Piccadilly.

^{page 329 note [r]} Ibid.—A piece of ground at Denny abbey, Cambridgeshire, is called the Vineyard.

^{page 329 note [s]} “Prior dirationavit apud Scaccarium misericordiam Stephani Vinitoris et “Petri Vinitoris fui.” Annal. Dunst. pag. 94. where Mr. Hearne conjectures 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 329 note [t]} Pag. 240. See also R. Swapham, pag. 105. 108, 109. This vineyard was large.

^{page 330 note [u]} Plot, Nat. Hist. of Staff, p. 380.—Several places called vineyards about Shrewsbury in Bowen's map of Shropshire.

^{page 330 note [w]} Grant 4 and 5 Ph. and Mary, from Sir William West to his son Edmund, penes Joh. Heath de Derby, gen.

^{page 330 note [x]} Beda, Eccl. Hist. pag. 42.

^{page 331 note [y]} Ric. Corin. pag. 42.

^{page 331 note [z]} Higden, pag. 180.

^{page 331 note [a]} Britannia, col. xc.

^{page 331 note [b]} Camden, Brit. col. CCLXIX.

^{page 331 note [c]} Virdungas ad Taciti Agric. cap. xii

^{page 332 note [d]} Twyni Comment. I. c.

^{page 332 note [e]} W. Whitlesey, pag. 130.

^{page 332 note [f]} Philipot Villare, p. 93.

^{page 332 note [g]} The modius was 36 gallons. Spelm. Hence the French muyd.

^{page 332 note [h]} Philipot's Visitation, in the Herald's office.

^{page 332 note [i]} Somner, Append. pag. 51.

^{page 333 note [k]} I suppose Rhenish, Aun being the proper measure for it.

^{page 333 note [l]} Battely's Append, pag. 27.

^{page 333 note [m]} Annal. Dunst. pag. 425.

^{page 333 note [n]} Ibid. pag. 628. 641.

^{page 333 note [o]} Battely's Appendix, pag. 29.

^{page 333 note [p]} Drake's Eboracum, pag. 440.

^{page 333 note [q]} M. Paris, pag. 855.

^{page 333 note [r]} Poictou and Anjou then belonged to England.

^{page 333 note [s]} Annal, Burton, pag. 257.

^{page 334 note [t]} Camden, col. MCCCXII.

^{page 334 note [u]} Rapin, I. pag. 21.

^{page 334 note [w]} Thorn. Chron. col, MMXXXVI.

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