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as foon as they went in, to look quite round the Room for fome 
of their Acquaintances , and then to begin, by asking how all 
was at their Houles : If no body was lick, they join’d with them 
in Company •, otherwife, or when they met with none they knew, 
all lat at a diftance from one another. 
The lame Perfon further tells me, that before the Fire, feveral 
other Coffee-Houles were fet on foot j one in S^coithins Alley y 
and two others in Exchange Alley ; one of them upon the lame 
Ground where now Garranvafs Hands, was kept by Mr. Elford, 
Father to this Gentleman : In all of them the Colfee-Room was 
up Stairs ; and the Coffee tiled there, as well as in private Families, 
came all diredly from the Levant. 
That Quarter of the Town where thele Coffee- Houfes Hood, was 
intirely confunfd by the Fire in 1666. and when the Ground 
came again to be built upon, Mr. Garra-wayy by fome means or 
other, got into the fame Place where Elford had been, and there 
open’d the firff Coffee-Houfe after the Fire. Elford took a Houfe 
in George-Tardy where he died, and left his Son in the fame Bufi- 
nefs, to whom I am obliged for all thele Particulars. This Coffee- 
Houle ftill fublifts, and goes by Mr. Elford's Name. 
Concerning Painter and Hodskinsy Bouomanh two Apprentices, 
Mr. Elford remembers likewilc, that they were for fome time 
Partners in that Coffee- Houle which Mr. Houghton lays Hodskins 
kept in St. Peters Alley. 
Soon after the Fire, the Coffee Houles Ipread to all Parts of the 
Town 3 the firll that was fet up without the City, was that which 
is now call’d the Rainbow Coffec-Houle, near Temple- Bar y by one 
Nicholas^ a Grecian by Birth , and the firft near the Court, was 
Mr. Mans at Charing-Crofs . Man was born in Scotland^ and having 
follow’d General Monk to Londony open’d his fird: Coffeee-Houle 
a few Years after the Fire, next door to where his Son now lives, 
and remov’d thither loon after. He was declar’d Coffee-Man to 
the Court by King Charles the Second •, and, till the Palace of 
Whitehall was burnt down, his Houfe was, in relped of the other 
Coffee-Houfes,what we now fee the principal ones dhoMtSt.Jamess. 
Imnliediately after the beginning of the (^condiPutch War, George 
Conjlantine a Greek ^ and who had formerly been a Seafaring-Man, 
began a Coffee-Houfe in Wapping^ near the Old Stairs 3 and in 
about a Year after remov’d to P e^ereux -Court y to the fame Houle 
where the Grecian Coffee- Houle, lo call’d by him, is Hill kept, and 
where his Name is to be feen upon the Sign. To this Perfon, 
the oldeH Coffee-Man now alive in London^ and perhaps in ChrP 
Jlendomj I am beholden for feveral Fa( 5 ts here mention’d. 
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