CONTENTS XV 



-^Joshua Sylvester sends a ' volley of holy shot ' against 

 the ' idolatrous weed ' — Samuel Rowland's ' Knave of 

 Clubbs,' a humorous satire on tobacco-smoking — Eastern 

 potentates' treatment of smokers of the Frankish novelty 

 — Russian atrocities inflicted on users of the weed — 

 Foreign Governments begin to see in it an easy means of 

 augmenting revenue — Peter the Great invites English 

 tobacco merchants to Moscow in order to establish a 

 factory there for the manufacture of tobacco — Queen 

 Anne in Council disapproves of the scheme, and orders 

 our Envoy to destroy the works and return the 

 workmen to their homes. 



CHAPTER IX . . . 169 



SOCIAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE WEED 



George Wither's song on tobacco-smoking — Undergoes 

 numerous alterations by later writers — Mr. Chappell, 

 through Mr. Payne Collier, traces the original song to 

 Wither — Bishop Fletcher succumbs to over-indulgence in 

 the pipe — Rev. W. Bredon resorts to the hemp cut off 

 the ends of the church bell-ropes as a substitute for 

 tobacco — Raleigh carries the novelty to Court and makes 

 smoking popular — Merriment in the city over the 

 ' tobacconists ' — Ben Jonson's mention of smoking — 

 ' Every Man out of his Humour ' — ' The Gipsies Meta- 

 morphosed ' — ' Bartholomew Faire ' — Dekker's ' Gull's 

 Horn Book ' — His * Satiromastix ' — Women smokers — 

 The daughters of Louis XIV. smoke in their private 

 apartments — England's paper warfare over the merits or 

 demerits of the weed — Joshua Sylvester supports the 

 King's ' Counterblaste ' — Heavy duty on tobacco and its 

 ruinous cost to the consumer — Peter Campbell's will — 

 Sir Edwin Sandys on the sum paid for tobacco received 

 from Spain — Dr. Everard on the ' Wonderful Vertues of 

 Tobacco taken in a Pipe' — Dr. Barclay's Nepenthes — 

 De Rochefort tells of smoking in rural England — 

 Mentions the case of a Spaniard using a bit of the cable 



