----, Sodd, i. e. boiled wine brought, [109]. See Sodde.
----, for hogsheads and tierces of, [98], [99].
----, paid for the king's, [155], [231].
---- Porters, for laying in wine, to the, [182], [190].
----, two bottles of new, brought, [276].
The following memoranda of the wines used in England at that and earlier periods, may perhaps be acceptable. In the Vision of Pierce Plowman, we find
"Whyt wine of Osey, and red wine of Gascoyne
Of the Renne, and of the Rochell the rosted to defye,"
mentioned; and in the Northumberland Household Book is an entry of "x ton ij hogisheds of Gascoigne wyne, for the expensys of my house for an hole yere, viz. iij ton of Rede wyne, v tonn of Claret wyne, and ij ton and ij hogisheds of white wyne after iiijl. xiijs. iiijd. the ton."—Ed. 1827, p. 6. In Lodge's Illustrations, vol. i. p. 17, Thomas Allen, in a letter to the Earl of Shrewsbury in 1516, says, "This day I trust to send towards Wyndfield ij tonne wyne; wherof iiij hogshedd claret, ij red wyne, on whit wyne, and th' oder punchin freche wyne. If hit be well carried, I trust your Lordship will lik hit well. Hit will cost vli. vjs. viiid. the tonne, wherof the weynes must have for their labour xxs.;" and in another letter, dated in 1517, Allen informs the Earl; "I have bought iij ton of new Gascon wyne; weather your Lordship woll have new or olde sent downe I cannot tell. Your Lordship comands also iij hogsheds of wyne of —— or of wyne of Graves, and iij hogshedds of suche Frenche white wyne as ye had last yer of John Eston to be send; her is non yet com, neder, as Alen Kyng sheweth unto me, wolbe befor Crismas. Yr Lordship hathe ij hogsheds of olde French wyne, of Byon, at Coleharbert; as for Rynishe wyne there cam never non so bad as com this yer; as sone as any comys that is good your Lordship shall have therof. As Alen Kyng sheweth unto me ther was ij vessell of Muscadyne wyne which wer good, the King had on, my Lord Cardinall th' oder."—Ibid. p. 31. Among the expenses of the Household of Thomas Kytson, Esq. printed in Mr. Gage's History and Antiquities of Hengrave, is the following interesting account of the wines used in the reign of Elizabeth, with their prices.—"December 1572, For xiij gallons of Muscedell, at ijs. viijd. the gallon, xxxiiijs. viijd.—for xx gallons j qrt. Malmesey, at ijs. the gallon, with xd. for spoonage, and carriage xljs. viijd.:—for xj gallons iij qrts. Sack, at ij s. the gallon, with iiij d. for spoonage xxiijs. xd.;—for xij gallons j qrt. Rhenish wyne xxiiijs. vjd." p. [193]. No notice, however, occurs of Gaillac wine, which we learn from these Accounts in February, 1530, cost 5l. 8s. per ton; nor are any others than Rhenish and Malmsey wines mentioned in the MS. dated "Apud Eltham mense Jan, 22 Henry VIII," referred to in the Archæologia, vol. iii. p. 156. The total amount expended in wines in the three years embraced by these Accounts, was, [2],516l. 4s.
Wodales Master, [13].
Woking Park, to the keeper of, [253].