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even ladies indulging in the new Inxnry. Sir 

 Walter Raleigh was not slow, it is said, in 

 setting the fashion of smoking parties, at which 

 entertainments his guests were regaled with 

 pipes and spiced ale. Queen Elizabeth appears 

 to have liked and encouraged the practice of 

 smoking, and so long as she ruled the land the 

 days of tobacco were days of peace. 



In the succeeding reign, however, tobacco 

 began to be decried by the physicians, and was 

 intolerantly hated by the king, who, in 1604, 

 added to the original duty of 2d. on the pound 

 a further exorbitant charge of 6s. 8d. 



By this time the cultivation of tobacco had 

 already begun in England, and, in spite of the 

 opposition of the Crown, was pursued with 

 success. 



Cromwell, in his turn, thought fit to dis- 

 courage the practice, and sent bodies of horse 

 through the plantations to destroy them. 



In the reign of Charles II. the first law was 

 passed to restrain the still increasing cultivation 

 of tobacco. 



The Statute 12 Car. II. c. 34, an Act for pro- 

 hibiting the planting, setting, or sowing of 

 tobacco in England or Ireland, runs as follows : 

 "Your Majesty's loyal and obedient subjects, 

 the Lords and Commons in this present Parlia- 



