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been
in
use
any
length
of
time
in
France
before
it
would
be
drank,
as
a
novelty,
in
England,
and
by
the
year
1660
it
had
become
in
such
general
use
that
it
was
made
a
vehicle
for
taxation,
as
we
see
by
the
12
Chas.
II.,
c.
23
:
*'
For
every
gallon
of
Chocolate,
Sherbet,
and
Tea,
made
and
sold,
to
be
paid
by
the
Makers
thereof,
Eightpence,"
and
men
were
appointed
to
visit
the
coffee-houses
twice
daily
to
see the
quan-
tity
brewed.
But
this
was
so
inconvenient,
that
in
1688,
after
giving
this
scheme
a
good
trial,
the
Act
was
repealed
by
I
Will.
&
Mary,
c.
40,
and
the
duties
on
coffee,
chocolate,
and
tea
(for
this
latter
i^.
per
lb.)
were
charged
and
collected
at
the
Custom
House,
because
**
It
hath
been
found
by
experience,
that
the
collecting
of
the
duty
arising
to
your
Majesties
by
virtue
of
several
Acts
of
Parliament,
by
way
of
excise,
upon
the
liquors
of
Coffee,
Chocolate
and
Tea,
is
not
only
very
troublesome
and
unequal
upon
the
retailers
of
those
liquors,
but
requireth
such
attendance
of
officers,
as
makes
the
neat
receipt
very
inconsiderable."
In
the
British
Museum
is
a
broadside
folio
ad-
vertisement,
supposed
to
be
about
a.d,
1600,
of
a
tobacconist,
one
Thomas
Garway,
who
kept
a
coffee-
house
in
Exchange
Alley,
known
up
till
late
years,
when
it
has
disappeared
in
the
universal
rage
for
improvements,
as
Garra
way's
Coffee
House.
It
is
as
follows
:
"
An
Exact
Description
of
the
Growth,
Quality,
and
Vertues
of the
Leaf
TEA,
by
Thomas
Garway
in
Exchange
Alley,
near
the
Royal
Exchange
in
London
and
Seller
and
Retailer of
TEA
and
COFFEE.