[294] Bradley, in 1726, gives a long list of pears all with French names, hardly any of which are now known in England.

[295] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 107.

[296] Annotation upon the Legacie of Husbandry, 1651, p. 105.

[297] Markham, i. 174 (ed. 1635).

[298] Systema Agriculturae, p. 152.

[299] Evelyn, Pomona (ed. 1664), p. 2.

[300] Compleat Husbandman (ed. 1659), p. 75.

[301] Most Approved and Long Experienced Waterworks.  London, 1610.

[302] See Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae (ed. 1669), p. 155.

[303] Tooke, History of Prices, i. 23.

[304] Life of Sir S. D’Ewes, i. 180.

[305] Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1629-31, p. 414.

[306] Whole Art of Husbandry (ed. 1635), i. 50.

[307] Ibid. i. 100.

[308] Ibid. i. 121.

[309] An astonishing statement; cf.  Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century, p. 56, Neckham, De Natura Rerum, cap. clxvi. and above, p. 93.

[310] Whole Art of Husbandry (ed. 1635), i. 173.

[311] Whole Art of Husbandry (ed. 1635), ii. 144. and MS. accounts of Mr. Chevallier of Aspall Hall, Suffolk.

[312] Thorold Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, v. 28.

[313] Farming and Account Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1641, Surtees Society, xxxiii. 157.

[314] Ibid. p. 99.

[315] Farming and Account Books of Henry Best of Elmswell, 1641.  Surtees Society, xxxiii. 124.  Many districts in the north of England were still much behind the rest of the country.

[316] Trevelyan, England under the Stuarts, 8 sq.  Though, as we have seen, p. 157, the writer of the Fruiterer’s Secrets recommends the gun for scaring birds in 1604.

[317] The Husbandry of Brabant and Flanders (ed. 1652), p. 18.

[318] Systema Agriculturae, p. 26.

[319] MS. accounts of Sir Abel Barker, in the possession of G.W.P.  Conant, Esq.

[320] Worlidge, Systema Agriculturae, p. 28.

[321] Compleat Husbandman (1659), p. 5.

[322] Ibid. p. 9.

[323] Cf. supra, p. 136.

[324] Compleat Husbandman (1659), p. 23.

[325] Archaeologia, i. 324; iii. 53.

[326] De Natura Rerum, Rolls Ser., lxi.

[327] Denton, England in the Fifteenth Century, 57 n.

[328] Ibid.

[329] Ed. 1686, p. 380.

[330] R. Bradley, A General Treatise of Husbandry (ed. 1726), ii. 52.

[331] Tooke, History of Prices i. 44.  Brandy was made in the eighteenth century from grapes grown in the Beaulieu vineyards in Hampshire, and a bottle of it long kept at the abbey.—­Hampshire Notes and Queries, vi. 62.  There are two vineyards to-day, of 2-3/4 and 4 acres respectively, on the estates of the Marquis of Bute in Glamorganshire; but a vintage is only obtained once in four or five years from them, and they are not profitable.