EARLIEST MENTION OF 

 TEA 



ACCOEDIJSTG to a magazinist, 

 the first mention of tea by 

 an Englishman is to be found 

 in a letter from Mr. Wickham, an 

 agent of the East India Company, 

 written from Japan, on the 27th of 

 June, 1615, to Mr. Eaton, another 

 officer of the company, a resident of 

 Macao, asking him to send " a pot of 

 the best chaw." In Mr. Eaton's ac- 

 counts of expenditure occurs this 

 item : 



" Three silver porringiys to drink 

 chaw in." 



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