HO A SMOKING DIVINE. 



as in the Seventeenth Century its supposed virtues as a 

 medicine induced many to inhale the smoke constantly. 

 This was one reason why tobacco was condemned by so 

 many of the writers and playwrights of the day yet many 

 of them used the weed in some form from Ben Johnson to 

 Gibber the one fond of his pipe the other of his snuff. 



In 1639 Yenner published a volume entitled " A Treatise " 

 concerning the taking of the fume of tobacco. His advice 

 is " to take it moderately and at fixed times." Many of the 

 clergy were devoted adherents of the pipe. Lilly says of its 

 use among them : 



" In this year Bredon vicar of Thornton a profound divine, 

 but absolutely the most polite person for nativities in that 

 age, strictly adhering to Ptolemy, which he well understood ; 

 he had a hand in composing Sir Christopher Heydon's 

 defence of judicial astrology, being that time his chaplain ; he 

 was so given over to tobacco and drink, that when he had no 

 tobacco, he would cut the bell-ropes and smoke them." 



