ALE AND TOBACCO, 101 
and hangers on at taverns and ale-houses, who are alluded to 
in Rich’s. “ Honestie of this Age: 
“There is not so base a groome that comes into an ale- 
house to call for his pott, but he must have his pipe of 
tobacco ; for it is a commodity that is nowe as vendible in 
every tavern, wine and ale-house, as eyther wine, ale or beare ; 
OLD LONDON ALE-HOUSE. 
and for apothecaerie’s shops, grocer’s shops, chandler’s shops, 
they are never without company, that from morning till 
night, are still taking of tobacco. What a number are there 
besides, that doe keepe houses, set open shoppes, that have 
no other trade to live by, but by selling of tobacco. I have 
heard it told, that now very lately there hath been a cata- 
logue of all those new erected houses that have sett up that 
-trade of selling tobacco in London, and neare about London; 
and if a man may believe what is confidently reported, there 
are found to be upwards of seven thousand of houses that 
doth live by that trade. 
“Tf it be true that there be seven thousand shops in and 
about London, that doth vend tobacco, as & is credibly 
reported that there be over and above that number, it may 
well be supposed to be but an ill customed shop, that taketh 
not five shillings a day, one day with another throughout the 
whole year; or, if one doth take lesse, two other may take 
more; but let us make our account, but after two shillings 
sixpence a day, for he that taketh lesse than that would be 
ill able to pay his rent, or to keepe open his shop windows; 
neither would tobacco houses make such a muster as they do, 
and that almost in every lane, and in every by-corner round 
about London.” 
“A Tobacco seller is described after this manner by 
