SOME ENGLISH TEA HIS- 

 TORY 



TEA was brought into Europe 

 by the DUTCH EAST I^DIA 

 COMPANY, in 1610. It was at 

 least forty, and perhaps forty-seven, 

 years later that England woke up to 

 the fascinations of the new drink. 

 Dr. Johnson puts it at even a later 

 date, for he claims that tea was first 

 introduced into England by Lords 

 Arlington and Ossory, in 1666, and 

 really made its debut into society 

 when the wives of these noblemen 

 gave it its vogue. 



If Dr. Johnson's statement is in- 

 tended to mean that nothing is any- 

 thing until the red seal of the select 



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