a people who are so naturally fond of 

 show. 



Two years after, it was sold in public at the 

 Foire St. Germaine, by Pascal, an Armenian, 

 who afterwards set up a coffee-house on the 

 Quai de TEcole ; but not being encouraged 

 in Paris, he left that city and came to Lon- 

 don: however, soon after this, some spacious 

 rooms were opened in Paris for the sale of 

 coffee, and they soon increased to upwards 

 of three hundred. 



It is said to have been first brought to 

 England by Mr. Nathaniel Conopius, a 

 Cretan, who made it his common beverage, 

 at Baliol College, at Oxford, in the year 

 1641, and that the first coffee-house in 

 England was kept by one Jacob, a Jew, 

 at the sign of the Angel in Oxford, in 

 1650. Coffee was first publicly known in 

 London, in 1652, when Mr. Daniel Edwards, 

 a Turkey merchant, brought home with him 

 a Ragusan Greek servant, whose name was 

 Pasqua Rossee, who understood the roasting 

 and making of coffee, and kept a house for 

 the purpose, in George Yard, Lombard 

 Street, or rather, according to Mr. Houghton, 

 in a shed in the Churchyard of St, Michael's, 

 Cornhill. The famous Dr. Harvey used it 

 frequently. Mr. Ray affirms that, in 1688, 



