Show i Anti V Reports of or the hop harvest suffering suffer suffer- ing lug through the war would have hare pleased the hop anti-hop crusaders of for former mer times In the middle of or the seventeenth sev century the city of or London petitioned parliament to put down dowa two nuisances Newcastle coals In la regard to their stench etc and hops In regard they would spoil the taste it of or drink and endanger the people A Afew A Afew few tew decades later John Evelyn appealed appealed appealed ap ap- pealed to the king and all loyal and and- owners to banish the drogue hopps J which he declared spoiled good ale I and led to tormenting diseases by iL planting cider fruit and so creating a l jj taste for tor more wb some liquor A i j century ago wrote angrily i of or hops and hop growers chiefly because because because be- be cause of or the destruction of at young II trees for hop poles London London Chron V I icle ide |