1869 Cooling Cups and Dainty drinks by William Terrington

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Origin of Bottled Beer.

meaning: a combination of tlie above three kinds. This was first retailed at the “ Blue Last/’ Curtain Road, Shoreditch, and soon crept into popularity. The origin of bottled beer is thus quaintly recorded by Fuller. “Dean Newall, of St. Pauls, But while Newall was catching of fishes, Bishop Bonner was bent on catching of Newall, and would certainly have sent him to the shambles had not a good London merchant conveyed him away upon the seas. Newall was fishing on the banks of the Thames when he received the first intimation of his danger, which was so pressing that he dared not go back to his own house to make preparation the first years of England’s deliverance, he returned to his own country, and his old haunts, he remembered that, on the day of his flight, he had left a bottle of beer in a safe place on the bank of the stream in which he had fished ; there he looked for it, and ‘ found no bottle, but a gun/ for such was the sound emitted at the opening thereof.” And this is supposed by many to be the origin of bottled ale in England. Dr. Pereira says, for medical purposes, that bottled porter is usually preferred to draught porter. It in the reign of Queen Mary, was an excellent angler. for his flight. Like an honest angler, he had taken provisions for the day ; and when, in