Note 46 — PART I.

This wine, no doubt, came from a considerable distance round, for we find P. de la Place, a mercer of Reims, seeking in 1409 to recover the value of five queues and two poinçons ‘of wine from the cru of the town of Espernay, on the river of Esparnay,’ delivered at Reims to J. Crohin of Hainault, the origin of the same being certified by S. de Laval, a sworn wine-broker, ‘who knows and understands the wines of the country around Reims.’