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which we call cider, suggests that it had its origin

in Norfolk, a county that has again and again proved an agricultural pioneer. Two quotations from contemporary records seem to prove this : " The Lordships of Redham and Stokeley . . . held by the Petty Sergeantry by the tenure of paying yearly on Michaelmas Day . . . 200 Pearmain Apples and 4 Mids. of wine made from Pearrnains." The date of this is A .D. 1205. Another record from the Manor of Banham, dated 1281, has it that " The Lord has a messuage containing 7 acres and 1 rood . . . and the herbage is worth 5/2 and the Apple Orchards (pomeria) are reckoned at three casks of cyder (dolia cysariet), price of a cask 10/-."