The Quarterly Review, Volumes 291-292John Murray, 1953 |
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Page 447
... wine trade . So powerful were the importers of wine in those days that in 1363 , when Edward III dined in the Vintners ' Hall , he brought with him no fewer than four other kings , namely John II of France , who had been captured three ...
... wine trade . So powerful were the importers of wine in those days that in 1363 , when Edward III dined in the Vintners ' Hall , he brought with him no fewer than four other kings , namely John II of France , who had been captured three ...
Page 448
... wines were coming in at a rate of between d . and 31d . a gallon . By the fourteenth century Gascon wine ( which was 90 per cent . of our imports ) was priced at 3d . a gallon , although in London in 1338 it went as high as 44d . Rhine wine ...
... wines were coming in at a rate of between d . and 31d . a gallon . By the fourteenth century Gascon wine ( which was 90 per cent . of our imports ) was priced at 3d . a gallon , although in London in 1338 it went as high as 44d . Rhine wine ...
Page 455
... wine- grower had his home market to himself . Then came the Pax Romana , with its safe and rapid means of communica- tion , and the world gradually became a much smaller place . The Gauls started making wine in the Rhone valley , and ...
... wine- grower had his home market to himself . Then came the Pax Romana , with its safe and rapid means of communica- tion , and the world gradually became a much smaller place . The Gauls started making wine in the Rhone valley , and ...
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