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bring with him some coffee, which he believed 
was a thing unknown in his country.” 
Mr. Galand tells us he was informed by 
M. de la Croix, the King’s interpreter, that 
M. Thevenot, who had travelled through the 
East, at his return in 1657, brought with him 
to Paris some coffee for his own use, and 
often treated his friends with it. 
It was known some years sooner at Mar- 
seilles; for, in 1644, some gentlemen who 
accompanied M. de la Haye to Constantinople, 
brought back with them on their return, not 
only some coffee, but the proper vessels and 
apparatus for making it. However, until 
1660, coffee was drunk only by such as had 
been accustomed to it in the Levant, and 
their friends: but that year some bales 
were imported from Egypt, which gave a 
great number of persons an opportunity of 
trying it, and contributed very much to bring- 
ing it into general use; and in 1761, a coffee- 
house was opened at Marseilles in the neigh- 
bourhood of the Exchange. 
Before 1669, coffee had not been seen at 
Paris, except at M. Thevenot’s, and some of 
his friends ; nor scarce heard of but from the 
account of travellers. In that year, Soliman 
Aga, ambassador from the Sultan Mahomet 
the Fourth, arrived,.who, with his retinue, 
brought a considerable quantity of coffee 
with them, and made presents of it to per- 
sons both of the court and city, and is sup- 
posed to have established the custom of 
drinking it. 
Two years afterwards, an Armenian, of the 
name of Pascal, set up a coffee-house, but 
meeting with little encouragement, left Paris 
and came to London. 
From Anderson’s Chronological History 
of Commerce, it appears that the use of coffee 
was introduced into London some years earlier 
than into Paris. For in 1652 one Mr. Ed- 
wards, a Turkey merchant, brought home 
with him a Greek servant, whose name was 
Pasqua, who understood the roasting and 
making of coffee, till then unknown in Eng- 
land. This servant was the first who sold 
coffee, and kept a house for that purpose in 
George Yard, Lombard Street. 
The first mention of coffee in our statute 
books is anno 1660 (12 Car. II. c. 24.), when 
a duty of 4d. was laid upon every gallon of 
coffee made and sold, to be paid by the maker. 
The statute 15 Car. II. c.11. § 15. ann. 
1663, directs that all coffee-houses should be 
licensed at the general quarter sessions of 
the peace for the county within which they 
are to be kept. 
In 1675 King Charles IJ. issued a pro- 
clamation’ to shut up the coffee-houses, but 
in a few days suspended the proclamation by 
a second. They were charged with being 
seminaries of sedition. 
The first European author who has made 
any mention of coffee is Rauwolfus, who was 
in the Levant in 1573. 
DR. DRYASDUST. 
Sir, — Do you, or any of your readers, 
know anything of the family of that celebrated 
antiquary ? and do you think it probable that 
he was descended from, or connected with, 
the author of a work which I met with some 
time ago, intituled “‘ Wit Revived, or A new 
and excellent way of Divertisement, digested 
into most ingenious Questions and Answers. 
By Aspryaspust Tossorracan. London: 
Printed for T. E. and are to be sold by most 
Booksellers. MpcCLXXIv.” 12mo. I do not 
know anything of the author’s character, but 
he appears to have been a right-minded man, 
in so far as he (like yourself) expected to find 
“wit revived” by its digestion into “ most 
ingenious questions and answers;” though 
his notion that asking and answering ques- 
tions was a new way of divertisement, seems 
to indicate an imperfect knowledge of the 
nature and history of mankind: but my query 
is simply genealogical. H. F. W. 
MACAULAY’S “ YOUNG LEVITE.” 
Sir, — The following passage from the 
Anatomy of Melancholy, published 1651, 
struck me as a curious corroboration of the 
passage in Mr. Macaulay’s History which 
describes the “ young Levite’s” position in 
society during the seventeenth century ; and 
as chance lately threw in my way the work 
from which Burton took his illustration, I take 
the liberty of submitting Notes of both for 
your examination. 
“ Tf he be a trencher chaplain in a gentleman’s 
house (as it befel Euphormio), after some seven 
years’ service he may perchance have a living to 
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