Edinburgh.
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_Vineyards in England_ (Vol. ii., p. 392.).--The Lincoln "Vine Closes" may
as well be added to the rest. They were given to the church here by Henry
I. See the charter, entitled _Carta Hen. I. de Vinea sua Linc._, in Dugdale
(Caley's) vol. vi. p. 1272. Their site is a rather steep slope, facing the
south, and immediately east of the city. The southern aspect of our hill
was celebrated long ago by some poet, as quoted by H. Huntingdon:
"Urbs in colle sita est, et collis vergit ad austrum".
N.B. One of the Abbey fields at Bullington, a few miles east of Lincoln, is
known as the Hopyard. The plant has never been cultivated in these parts
within memory, or the range of the faintest tradition, but the character of
the soil is clayey, and perhaps not unsuitable. Were hopyards often
attached to monasteries? The house at Bullington was of the order of
Sempringham.