[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 23/4 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.
[332] Compleat Husbandman, 1659, p, 42.
[333] Compleat Husbandman, 1659, p. 57.
[334] Ibid. p. 73.
[335] In this apparently repeating Davenant's statement. See McCulloch, Commercial Dictionary, 1852, p. 271.
[336] Thorold Rogers, History of Agriculture and Prices, v. 332.
[337] Houghton, Collections for Improvement of Husbandry, i. 294.
[338] Ibid., Collections for Husbandry and Trade (ed. 1728), iv. 336.