_Meaning of "Claret"_ (Vol. vii., pp. 237. 511.).--Old Bartholomew
Glanville, the venerable Franciscan, gives a recipe for claret in his
treatise _De Proprietatibus Rerum_, Argent., 1485., lib. xix. cap. 56.,
which proves it to be of older date than is generally supposed:
"Claretum ex vino et melle et speciebus aromaticis est confectum ...
Unde a vino contrahit fortitudinem et acumen, a speciebus autem retinet
aromaticitatem et odorem, sed a melle dulcedinem mutuat et saporem."