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any quakers to reside here after the 1st of July next, 

 shall be fined 5000 pounds of tobacco." This is 

 followed by another : — " Any person inhabiting this 

 country, and entertaining any Quaker in or near his 

 house, to preach or teach, shall, for every time of such 

 entertainment, be fined 5000 pounds of tobacco." It 

 was the custom in the colony at this period to pay 

 invariably all fines for crimes in pounds of tobacco.* 



It must not, however, be too hastily inferred from 

 this that the " religious world " did not smoke. Some 

 sectarians prided themselves on it ; and when they 

 stabled their horses in our cathedrals, fumigated them 

 also with tobacco. In the Conference between a Puri- 

 tan Preacher and a Family of his Flock, printed in 

 the (spurious) posthumous works of Butler, 1732, the 

 preacher exclaims before dinner — 



I must crave thy leave to light 



One pipe to whet my appetite ; " 



and in the Hump Songs mention is made of one of 

 " the Saints " who was a lover of the pipe : — 



" Salloway, with tobacco 

 Inspired, turned State Quack O ! " 



The translator of Everard's treatise t says of its 



* In the early colonisation, the charge made to settlers as the price of 

 a young woman "imported there " was 120 lbs. of tobacco. 



+ Panacea, or the Universal Medicine ; being a Discovery of the Won- 

 derfull Virtues of Tobacco taken in a Pipe ; with its Use and Operation 

 both in Physich and Chyrurgery. By Dr. Everard. 1659. Translated 

 by J. R., and dedicated to the Merchants and Planters of Tobacco. 



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