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"Making the body active and lusty, helping the headache, 

 giddiness and heaviness, removing the difficulty of breathing, 

 clearing the sight, banishing lassitude, strengthening the stomach, 

 causing good appetite and digestion, vanishing heavy dreams, 

 easing the frame, strengthening the memory, and finally prevent- 

 ing consumption, particularly when drank with milk." 



Many other remarkable properties being credited to 

 this wonderful " Chinese herb," the advertiser closes his 

 great encomiums by suggesting 



"That all persons of eminence and quality, gentlemen, and 

 others who have occasion for tea in the leaf may be supplied. 

 These are to give notice that the said Thomas hath the same to 

 sell from sixteen to fifty shillings the pound." 



If the article had possessed but a tithe of the virtues 

 and excellencies accorded to it by the celebrated Garway 

 it must have been recognized at the time as the coming 

 boon to man. 



Up to 1660 no mention is made of Tea in the English 

 statute books, although it is cited in an act of the first 

 parliament of the Restoration of the same year, which 

 imposed a tax of " eightpence on every gallon made and 

 sold, to be paid by the maker thereof." This was sub- 

 sequently increased to five shillings per pound in the 

 Leaf, which at the time was stated to be " no small preju- 

 dice to the article, as well as an inconvenience to the 

 drinker." Ever since that year the duty on Tea has 

 been one of the hereditary customs of the Crown, 

 though Parliament has at sundry times, by different acts, 

 fixed divers duties upon it. 



Pepys alludes to Tea in his Diary, under date of Sep- 

 tember 25, 1 66 1, the entry reading : " I did send for a cup 

 of Tee, a China drink, of which I never drank before " ; 

 and again, in 1667, he further mentions it. " Home, and 

 there find my wife making of Tee, a drink which Mr. 



