7. _Rompney._ Henderson, p. 288, says, “Another of the above-mentioned wines (in _the Squire of Low Degree_) designated by the name of the grape, was the Romenay, otherwise Romenay, Rumney, Romaine, or Romagnia. That it could not be the produce of the Ecclesiastical State, as the two last corruptions of the word would seem to imply, may be safely averred; for at no period, since the decline of the empire, has the Roman soil furnished any wines for exportation; and even Bacci, with all his partiality, is obliged to found his eulogy of them on their ancient fame, and to confess that, in his time, they had fallen into disrepute.” He argues also against the notion that this wine came from Romana in Aragon, and concludes that it was probably a Greek wine, as Bacci (_Nat. Vin. Hist._ p. 333) tells us that the wine from the Ioinan Islands and adjoining continent was called in Italian _Romania_,--from the Saracen _Rum-ili_. Now this is all very well, but how about the name of _Rompney of Modene_ or Modena, just outside the Western boundary of the Romagna,--not Meudon, in France, “amongst all the wines which we use at Paris, as concerning the red, the best are those of Coussy, Seure, Vaunes, and _Meudon_.” Maison Rustique, p. 642.--Who will hold to John Russell, and still consider _Romney_ an Italian wine? _Rumney_, vinum resinatum. Withals. 8. _Bastard._ Henderson argues against the above-quoted (No. 6) supposition of Charles Etienne’s (which is supported by Cotgrave’s _Vin miellé_, honied wine, _bastard_, Metheglin, sweet wine), and adopts Venner’s account (_Via Recta ad Vitam Longam_), that “Bastard is in virtue somewhat like to muskadell, and may also in stead thereof be used; it is in goodness so much inferiour to muskadell, as the same is to malmsey.” It took its name, Henderson thinks, from the grape of which it was made, probably a bastard species of muscadine. “One of the varieties of vines now cultivated in the Alto Douro, and also in Madeira, is called _bastardo_, and the must which it yields is of a sweetish quality.” Of the Bastard wine there were two sorts,--white and brown (brown and white bastard, _Measure for Measure_, Act iii. sc. 2), both of them, according to Markham’s report, “fat and strong; the tawny or brown kind being the sweetest.” In _The Libelle of Englysch Polycye_, A.D. 1436 (Wright’s _Political Songs_, v. 2, p. 160), ‘wyne bastarde’ is put among the commodyetees of Spayne. 9. _Tire_, if not of Syrian growth, was probably a Calabrian or Sicilian wine, manufactured from the species of grape called _tirio_. _Tyre_, vinum Tyrense, ex Tyro insula. Withals.