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SECTION X: 
Berore the ufe of Tea, the general breakfaft in this 
country confifted of more fubftantial aliment*; milk in various 
fhapes, ale and beer, with toaft, cold meat, and other additions. 
The like additions, with fack, and the moft generous wines, 
found their way amongft the higher orders of mankind. And 
one cannot fuppofe but that fuch a diet, and the ufual exercife 
they took, would produce a very different ftate of blood and 
other animal juices, from that which Tea, a little milk or 
cream, and bread and butter, affords. 
It was not the breakfaft only that feems to have contributed 
its {hare towards introducing a material alteration in the animal 
fyftem, but the fubfequent regale likewife in the afternoon. 
* The late Owen Salufbury Brereton, Efq. a gentleman well known among the_ 
_ learned, had in his poffeffion a MS. dated ‘‘ apud Eltham, menfe Jan. 22, Hen. viij.” 
intituled, ‘* Articles devifed by his Royal Highnefs (the title of Majefty was.not given 
to our Kings till a reign or two after), with Advice of his Council, for the Eftablifh- 
ment of good Order and Reformation of fundry Errors and Mifufes in his Houfehold 
and Chambers.” In p. 85, ‘* The queen’s maids of honour to have a chet loaf, a 
manchat, a gallon of ale, anda chine of beef, for their breakfafts.”. Compare the - 
Archzologia, publithed by the Society of Antiquaries of London, Vol. TIT. p157. 
Hume’s Hiftory of England, Vol. IV. p. 499. Hiftoria delle cofe occorfe nel Tegno © 
d'Inghilterra in materia del Duca di Notomberlan dopo la morte di + et Vi. 
: ae 1538.. | 
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