...the first I can find with hops as an ingredient. The old distich, of which there are two versions, Hops, reformation, bays, and beer, Came into England all in one year, and Hops and turkeys, carp and beer, Came into England all in a year,1 would fix the introduction of...

...1 Few popular jingles contain so large an amount of misstatement as that which tells us that — " Hops, Reformation, Bays, and Beer, Came into England all in one year." Or, as another form varies the information — " Turkies, carp, hoppes, pickerell, and beer, Came into...

...introduced into England in the reign of Henry VIII., though the old rhyme is hardly correct which says, — Hops, reformation, bays, and beer Came into England all in one year. They were extensively cultivated in Suffolk in the time of Tusser. Onions, cabbages, carrots, parsnips,...

...Arranged," i. 156. He says that asparagus, cauliflower, artichokes, etc., were introduced about 1602. "Hops, reformation, bays, and beer Came into England all in one year." — Old English rhyme, quoted Southerden Burn, p. 205. See Rogers's "Story of Holland" as to instruction...

...importance, though the distich, of which another •version has already been quoted (Vol. 1L, p. 736) — " Hops, reformation, bays, and beer Came into England all in one year" puts the date of their introduction into England too late. Their use was borrowed from the Low Countries...

...London streets were all used. The chief novelty was the increasing use of hops for brewing beer. " Hops, Reformation, Bays and Beer, Came into England all in one year " says the rhyme;1 and in Elizabeth's reign Kent was largely turning its orchards into hop-gardens....

...for their introduction, is too late ; so also is the rhyme, of which there are several variations : " Hops, reformation, bays, and beer, Came into England all in one year." Hops were apparently unknown in 1523 to Fitzherbert in Derbyshire ; but in 1552 they were sufficiently...

...for their introduction, is too late ; so also is the rhyme, of which there are several variations : " Hops, reformation, bays, and beer, Came into England all in one year." Hops were apparently unknown in 1523 to Fitzherbert in Derbyshire ; but in 1552 they were sufficiently...

...now they had to seek relief elsewhere. The Development of British Agriculture 19 An old rhyme runs : Hops, Reformation, Bays, and Beer, Came into England all in one year. This puts the changes rather crudely, but there is a good deal of truth in the statement that the Reformation...

...composition of beer In the sixteenth century. This circumstance Is thus noticed by an old author : — "Hups, reformation, bays and beer Came Into England all In one year." The addition of this popular herb appears to have formed the distinction between beer and ale. "The general...