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yearly rent." Under 1634 is noted, " The tobacco- 

 licencers go on apace ; they yield a good fine, and a 

 constant yearly rent." 



History proves that persecution never triumphs in its - 

 attempted eradications. Tobacco was so generally liked 

 that no legislative measures could prevent its use. Nor J 

 was it confined to " the fast men " of the age. " There 

 are also some," says Dr. Venner of Bath in his treatise 

 concerning the taking the fume of tobacco (1637), " who 

 are grave and seemingly wise and judicious, that take 

 it moderately, and most commonly at fixed times ; but 

 with its proper adjunct, which (as they doe suppose) is 

 a cup of sack, and this they think to bee no bad 

 physick." The clergy occasionally indulged in " a quiet 

 pipe." Archbishop Harsnett, in his Ordinances for 

 the regulation of his schools at Chigwell in Essex, 

 ordains that the Latin schoolmaster be " of a sound 

 religion, neither papist nor puritan, of a grave be- 

 haviour, of a sober and honest conversation, no tippler 

 nor haunter of ale-houses," and, as a climax, " no 

 puffer of tobacco ! " Aubrey, writing in 1680, says, 

 " within these thirty-five years it was considered scan- 

 dalous for a divine to take tobacco ; " but Lilly, the 

 Astrologer, in his Memoirs, under the year 1633, 

 tells a different tale. He says : — 



" In this year also "William Bredon, parson or vicar 

 of Thornton in Buckinghamshire, was living, a pro- 

 found divine, but absolutely the most polite person 

 for nativities in that age, strictly adhering to Ptolomy, 

 which he well understood ; he had a hand in com- 



