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charge of it very unwillingly. It found, however, great favour 
with the Court at Moscow, and soon became a national 
beverage. As regards the introduction of tea into England 
the following are the most important facts to be considered. — 
The first English vessels which ever sailed to the East an 
back belonged to the expedition’ under Lancaster, despatched 
by the London Company in 1601, soon after the grant of 
original charter, None of these vessels returned home unti 
after Elizabeth’sdeath. If tea, therefore, reached England duri 
her reign, it must have come from the East through a fore 
channel. It has been supposed by some that tea was i 
brought over to England from Holland by Lords Arlingt 
_ . and Ossory in 1666. A treatise, however, by one Thomas Garnay’ 
a retailer of tea, who wrote during the Commonwealth, prove 
that it was already in use amongst the English some ye 
previously, He states that “ in England it hath been soldi 
leaf for six pounds, and sometimes for ten pounds the p 
weight ; and in respect of its former scarceness and deat 
it hath been only used as a regalia in high treatm 
and entertainments, and presents made thereof to p 
and grandees till the year 1657.” Later on in 1660, an A 
Parliament was passed, imposing a duty of eight pence om — 
every gallon of tea made for sale. In the same year, also, 
Waller, the courtier-poet, wrote the following lines on ™é 
occasion of the marriage of Charles II. with Catherine of 
Braganza: . a. ee 
“* The best of queens and best of herbs we owe 
To that bold nation who the way did show 
To the far region where the sun doth rise, 
Whose rich productions we so justly prize.” 
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