42 ESSEX AS A WINE-PRODUCING COUNTY.
of wine having been sent up to London from Maldon in the year
named. These entries run as follows :—24
" Et in ij Vineis de Meaidona faciend' et Vestitura et
solidat' Vineatoris—lij s."
" Et in xvj Tonell' em'dis et in conductu' usq' ad Meaidona
de Meaidona ad Lond'—x s. . . ." 25
An anonymous writer recently made the following state-
ments 26 as to the former existence of vineyards at Great and
Little Maplestead :—
" In Great Maplestead, we find mention of a vineyard in
1252, when John de Hoding granted to Sarah de Martnall and
Isabella, her daughter, all his lands in Mapletrested, which he
had of his nephew, Ralph de Hoding, namely the third part of
two carucates of arable, and alder ground called 'le Rede fen"
with a mill below it, and a vineyard. This vineyard was
probably situated on the slope of the hill, above Hull's Mill, in
Great Maplestead.
The neighbouring parish of Little Maplestead also had a
vineyard ; for, in a deed without date of the time of Edward I.,
Robert de Harlow, of Little Maplestead, quit-claims to the
Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem, living at Little Maple-
stead Hall (or, as it was then called, 'le Hospital'), the annual
rent of twelve pence arising from a parcel of land in Hokholt,
near their vineyard."
Mr. C. Roach Smith has published 27 extracts, supplied to
him by Mr. Joseph Burtt, from the Public Records on this
subject as follows :—
Hadley. Extent 31 Edward I. [1303.] Liberi tenentes.
Johannes Franceys tenet i messuagium &c. ; et predictus
Johannes et omnes alii tenentes levabunt fenum in prato
domini et habebunt 12 lagenas cervisie vel 12 d. et fodiet in
vineis i dolam que continet in longitudine 4 pedes et in
latitudine 3 perticatas. Item colliget uvas per i diem per se
vel alium hominem et tunc habebit cibum et potum de
domino.
24 See Magnun Rotulum Saccarii, vel Magnum Rotulum Pipae, &c., edited by the Rev.
Joseph Hunter, F.S.A., (London, Records Commission, 80, 1833), p. 135.
25 Apparently these passages may be translated :—"And in making two vineyards of
Maldon, and in clothing and wages of the vineyard keeper—52 shillings. . . . And in
"buying sixteen tuns and conveying them to Maldon and from Maldon to London - 10
"shillings."
26 East Anglian, n.s., iii. (1889-90), p. 157.
37 Collectanea Antiqua, vi., pp. 101-102. I have been unable, even with the kind
assistance of Mr. Salisbury, to discover the originals of these documents at the Record
Office,