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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."
That
it
met
with
opposition
at
its
introduction,
we
have
already
seen
in
"
A
Broadside
against
Coffee
;
but Hatton,
in
his
"New
View
of
London,"
1708,
gives
a
case
of
clear
persecution.
"
I
find
it
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.