Editing Baize (section)

==History==
A mid-17th-century English [[wikt:ditty|ditty]]&nbsp;– much quoted in histories of ale and beer brewing in England&nbsp;– refers to 1525:<br />

{{blockquote|Hops, heresies, bays, and beer;<br />Came into England all in one year.}}

''Heresies'' refers to the Protestant [[Reformation]], while ''bays'' is the [[Elizabethan English|Elizabethan]] spelling for ''baize''<ref>{{cite web |work=Life in Elizabethan England |url= http://elizabethan.org/compendium/75.html |title=Good English Ale |date=22 March 2008 |first=Paula Kate |last=Marmor |access-date=20 February 2011}}</ref> (though ''bay'' and ''baize'' eventually came to describe two similar but distinguishable types of cloth, as described below).