TOBACCO LEAVES 



out to runne low. And here you must ob- 

 serve to know that what state tobacco is 

 in town better than the merchants, and to 

 discourse of the potecaries where it is to be 

 sold as readily as the potecary himselfe." 



Here we see it suggested that the new 

 luxury was an expensive one. Further 

 proof of this is shown in a comedy called 

 " The Sun's Darling," published about the 

 same time as the above. A foppish gal- 

 lant is characterized as " some alderman's 

 son, one that blows away his patri- 

 mony in feathers and tobacco." Accord- 

 ing to Sir Edwin Sandys, England was 

 yearly importing, in 1620, from Spain, 

 120,000 in value of tobacco. There were 

 three popular brands, Trinidado, Leaf, 

 and Pudding tobacco. The first kind came 

 in rolls or coils; the last was probably 

 cut or chopped. Although the beaux of 

 that day carried elegant snuff-boxes, which 

 were often built of ivory and inlaid woods, 



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