[37] ] Varin’s Archives Administratives de Reims.
[38] ] Froissart’s Chronicles.
[39] ] Baron Taylor’s Reims; la Ville de Sacres.
[40] ] Amongst the better known are Chamery, where the archbishop had a house, vineyard, and garden, let for 3 s. per annum, about five jours of vineyard and two jours of very good vineland; Mareuil, whence he drew ten hogsheads of wine annually; Rilly, Verzenay, Sillery, Attigny, &c. The jour cost from 5 to 8 livres per annum for cultivation, and the stakes for the vines 4 sols, or 2 d., a hundred.
[41] ] The chapter of the Cathedral, the church of Notre Dame, the abbeys of St. Remi and St. Nicaise, had vineyards or ‘droits de vin’ at Hermonville, Rounay les Reims, Montigny, Serzy, Villers Aleran, Maineux devant Reims, Mersy, Sapiecourt, Sacy en la Montagne, Flory en la Montagne, Prouilly, Germigny, Saulx, Bremont, Merfaud, Trois Pins, Joucheri sur Vesle, Villers aux Neux, &c.; the last named also possessing a piece of ‘vingne gonesse’ at ‘a place called Mont Valoys in the territory of Reims.’
[42] ] At his château at the Porte Mars were forty-four queues of red and white wine, nineteen of new red and white wine, and four of old wine, valued, on an average, at 36 sols or 1 s. 6 d. the queue; at Courville there were fifty queues of new wine (valued at 30 sols the queue), twenty of old wine (worth nothing), and four ‘cuves’ for wine-making; and at Viellarcy, eighteen tuns of new wine, valued at 60 sols or 2 s. 6 d. per tun. To take charge of all these, Jehan le Breton, the defunct prelate’s assistant butler, was retained by the executors for half a year, at the wages of 74 sols or 3 s. 2 d. At the funeral feast there were consumed three queues of the best wine in the cellars, valued at 2 s. 7 ½ d. per queue, three others at 1 s. 3 d., and five pots of Beaune at 1 ⅔ d. English per pot, showing it to have been four times as valuable as native growths.
‘En Picardie sont li bourdeur,
Et en Champagne li buveur....
Telz n’a vaillant un Angevin