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intend to ho.. watchful, for it will hinder sleep for three or four hours. ''It is observed that in Turkey, where this is generally drunk, that they are not trobled with the Stone, Gout, Dropsie, or Scurvey, and that their Skins are exceeding deer and white. " It is neither Laxative nor Restringent.,

*' Made and Sold in St. Michael's Alley in Cornhill, by Pasqua Rosee, at the Signe of his own Head." met with opposition at its introduction, we

That it

A Broadside against Coffee ; "New View of London," 1708,

have already seen in "

but Hatton, in his

gives a case of clear persecution. Recorded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the Coffee House which is now the Rainbow, was, in the year 1657, presented by the Inquest of St. Dunstan's in the W. for Making and Selling a sort of Liquor, called Coffee, as a great N usance and Prejudice of the neigh- bourhood, etc. And who would then have thought London would ever have had near 3000 such Nusances, and that Coffee should have been, as now, so much Drank by the best of Quality and Physicians." ^ The coffee houses soon became popular, because they filled a social want. There were no clubs, as we know them, although there were limited social gather- ings, under the name of club, held at stated periods and the coffee house provided a convenient place for gossip and news. Here were served alcoholic drinks 1 For a list of 500 Coffee Houses, see Appendix to Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, by John Ashton. " I find it