19th.I came from Amsterdam, and came by Hortwich and Catwick, and stuck in a quicksand an hour by the sea-side.
20th.Mr. Plot brought me some gilliflower seed, which cost five ducatoons. Monsieur Campricht was with me; he told me how Bitch and Homberg belong to the empire; that he should be sorry Monsieur Van Beuninghen should be sent into Spain; they think of one Stangerland; he and some others tell me that the King of France will not evacuate Wesel, to keep them in awe; that he hears they are making great preparations for the war, that he is
brain and heart, and helped digestion," yet, in 1657, one Farr, a barber, who kept the Rainbow, was prosecuted by the Inquest of his Ward as the cause "of a great nuisance and prejudice to the neighbourhood." Who would have thought (says Hatton, in his London, 1708) that London would have had near 300 such nuisances, and that coffee would have been so much drank as now by the best of quality and physicians?
Mr. Henry Savile, Ambassador at Paris, writing to his uncle. Secretary Coventry, about this time speaks of the good reception he had always found at his house, and adds, "These, I hope, are the charms that have prevailed with me to remember (that is, to trouble you) oftener than I am apt to do other of my friends, whose buttery-hatch is not so open, and who call for tea, instead of pipes and bottles after dinner ; a base, unworthy Indian practice, and which I must ever admire your most Christian family for not admitting."—Sir Henry Ellis's Collection of Letters, 2 Series, iv. 58. Garraway's Coffee-House still retains its name.
