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Howes Continuation of Stow's Chronicle
London 1615?
Mulberries in the year 1609 many hundred thousands of Mulberry Trees were brought from France & started in the in many Shires of the Land but it is true that many years past divers industrious Gentlemen Kept Wormes & made Good Silk of late years Wm Slatledge Contreuler of the Customs house had a patent to for Seven Years to bring in mulberry Seed this year he & Monsr Venton By order of the King Planted the mulberry tree p.895.
* Carpes & Pepins were brought to England by Mister Mescel of [Plomsted in Guet?] p 948
Turkey Peches are generally said to have been brought to England between the 10th & 15th Hen 8
Hopps the Plants of them were brought from [Arters?] about the same time
Aprycots + Mellycatens [Muche miliens?] & Tobacco Came into England about the 20 Eliz
Tobacco was first made known in England by Sir John Hawkins about the year 1565 but not used by Englishmen for many years after
Licores was first planted & grown in England 1st Eliz
page 948.
[Melicetine?] Seem to be the yellow fleshd Peach Commonly calld the orange Peach
* Gervase Merchham Speaks of Carps or fish found in Rivers in his time See County Contentments art of angling. I think mescal must mean [indecipherable] carps which are now not to be found in our rivers or any where but near London
+ Bailey in his dictionary says that meleceton is a Kind of yellow Peach