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tuallers, carriers, cutters and dryers of tobacco, pipe- 

 makers, and the like, that deal in it, will prove 

 no less." 



The popularity of tobacco-smoking at the time of 

 the Restoration of Charles II., may be gathered from 

 the following curious narrative from The Life and 

 Times of Lilly the Astrologer, who was seized as a sus- 

 pected person in January, 1CG1, — " one Everard, a 

 Justice of Peace in Westminster, ere I was stirring, 

 sent a Serjeant and thirty four musqueteers for me to 

 White-Hall : he had twice that night seized about 

 sixty persons, supposed fanaticks, very despicable per- 

 sons, many whereof were aged, some were water- 

 bearers, and had been Parliament-soldiers ; others, of 

 ordinary callings : all these were guarded unto White- 

 Hall, into a large room, until day-light, and then 

 committed to the Gate-House : I was had into the 

 guard-room, which I thought to be hell ; some therein 

 were sleeping, others swearing, others smoaking to- 

 bacco. In the chimney of the room I believe there 

 was two bushels of broken tobacco pipes, almost half 

 one load of ashes." 



Charles II., on his P^estoration, confirmed the old 

 laws for the suppression of its culture, and extended 

 the restriction to Ireland, under a penalty of confisca- 

 tion and fine of forty shillings for every rood so 

 planted, except " in any phy sick -garden of either Uni- 

 versity, or in an} r other private garden for physick or 

 chirurgery," but then only half a pole of land to be so 

 planted. Three years afterwards the penalty was 



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