Note 42 — PART I.

At his château at the Porte Mars were forty-four queues of red and white wine, nineteen of new red and white wine, and four of old wine, valued, on an average, at 36 sols or 1 s. 6 d. the queue; at Courville there were fifty queues of new wine (valued at 30 sols the queue), twenty of old wine (worth nothing), and four ‘cuves’ for wine-making; and at Viellarcy, eighteen tuns of new wine, valued at 60 sols or 2 s. 6 d. per tun. To take charge of all these, Jehan le Breton, the defunct prelate’s assistant butler, was retained by the executors for half a year, at the wages of 74 sols or 3 s. 2 d. At the funeral feast there were consumed three queues of the best wine in the cellars, valued at 2 s. 7 ½ d. per queue, three others at 1 s. 3 d., and five pots of Beaune at 1 ⅔ d. English per pot, showing it to have been four times as valuable as native growths.