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raised to a fine of 101. per rood. It is recorded 

 that Charles sent a letter to the University of Cam- 

 bridge, forbidding the members to wear perriwigs, 

 smoke tobacco, and read the sermons they delivered* 

 Tobacco did not become popular at court; but smoking 

 it was a practice very constantly indulged as "the 

 contemplative man's recreation " (to use Walton's term 

 for fishing), particularly in the provinces. Thus, in 

 Shadwell's comedy, the Virtuoso, 1676, an old country 

 gentleman orders "a pipe and a match" in the garden; 

 another exclaims', " here 's old Snarl, he has called for 

 his tobacco too ; he smoaks all day like a kitchen 

 chimney." A French traveller, Monsieur Jorevin de 

 Eochefort,f thus relates his experiences of an evening 

 spent with a friend at Worcester : — 



" The supper being finished, they set on the table 

 half a dozen pipes and a pacquet of tobacco for 

 smoking, which is a general custom, as well among the 

 women as men, who think that without tobacco, one 

 cannot live in England, because they say it dissipates 

 the evil humours of the brain." 



" Whilst we were walking about the town, he asked 

 me if it was the custom in France, as in England, that 

 when the children went to school, they carried in their 

 satchel, with their books, a pipe of tobacco, which 

 their mother took care to fill early in the morning, it 

 serving them instead of a breakfast ; and that at the 



* Hone's Every Day Book, vol. i., col. 1264. 



f His travels were printed at Paris in 1672, and have been translated in 

 the Antiquarian Repertory, vol. ii., p. 99. 



