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yearly rent." Under 1684 is noted, " The tobacco- 

 licencers go on apace ; they yield a good fine, and a 

 constant yearly rent." 



History proves that persecution never triumphs in its 

 attempted eradications. Tobacco was so generally liked 

 that no legislative measures could prevent its use. Nor 

 was it confined to "the fast men " of the age. " There 

 are also some," says Dr. Venner of Bath in his treatise 

 concerning the taking the fume of tobacco (1637), " who 

 are grave and seemingly wise and judicious, that take 

 it moderately, and most commonly at fixed times ; but 

 with its proper adjunct, which (as they doe suppose) is 

 a cup of sack, and this they think to bee no bad 

 physick." The clergy occasionally indulged in " a quiet 

 pipe." Archbishop Harsnett, in his Ordinances for 

 the regulation of his schools at Chigwell in Essex, 

 ordains that the Latin schoolmaster be " of a sound 

 religion, neither papist nor puritan, of a grave be- 

 haviour, of a sober and honest conversation, no tippler 

 nor haunter of ale-houses," and, as a climax, " no 

 puffer of tobacco ! " Aubrey, writing in 1680, says, 

 " within these thirty-five years it was considered scan- 

 dalous for a divine to take tobacco ; " but Lilly, the 

 Astrologer, in his Memoirs, under the year 1633, 

 tells a different tale. He says : — 



" In this year also William Bredon, parson or vicar 

 of Thornton in Buckinghamshire, was living, a pro- 

 found divine, but absolutely the most polite person 

 for nativities in that age, strictly adhering to Ptolomy, 

 which he well understood ; he had a hand in com- 



