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DRINI^S.
There
was,
however,
another
Claret,
a
compounded
wine,
resembling
kypocraSy
which
Giraldus
Cambrensis^
who
lived
in
the
twelfth
century,
classes
thus
:
"
Clare-
turn,
mustum,
et
medonem
"
(Claret,
must,
and
mead).
And
the
venerable
Franciscan,
Bartholomew
Glan^
ville,^
says
:
''
Claretum,
ex
vino
et
melle
et
speciebus
aromaticis
est
confectum
"
(Claret
is
made
from
wine,
honey,
and
aromatic
spices).
It
makes
a
marked
feature
in
a
curious
tenure.^
"
John
de
Roches
holds
the
Manor
of
Winterslew,
in
the
county
of Wilts,
by
the
Service,
that
when
our
Lord
the
King
should
abide
at
Clarendon,
he
should
come
to
the
Palace
of
the
King
there,
and
go
into
the
Butlery,
and
draw
out
of
any
vessel
he
should
find
in
the
said
Butlery
at
his
choice,
as
much
Wine
as
should
be
needful
for
making
{pro
facturd)
a
Pitcher
of
Claret
{unim
Picheri
Clarelti),
which
he
should
make
at
the
King's
charge,
and
that
he
should
serve
the
King
with
a
Cup,
and
should
have
the
vessel
from
whence
he
took
the
Wine,
with
all
the
Remainder
of
the
Wine
left
in
the
Vessel-
together
with
the
Cup
from
whence
the
King
should
drink
that
Claret."
This
refers
to
a
roll
of
50
Ed.
1
1
1.,*
or
1376.
But
this
is
not
the
Claret
of
our
days,
which
is
the
wine
produced
in
the
countries
watered
by
the
rivers
Dordogne
and
Garonne
and
the
Gironde,
at
least
it
should
be
so
;
but,
in
truth,
owing
to
the
good
railway
communication,
wine
comes
to
Bordeaux
from
every
*
De
Proprietatibus
Rerum.
Argent.
1485,
lib.
xix.,
cap.
56.
*
Blount's
Fragmenta
\Antiquitatis,
Sec.
"
Grand
Serjeantry,"
No.
IV.