Buck, J. H, (John Henry. 1849-1914 · New York : The Gorham Manufacturing Company ; · leaf 144
OLD PLATE TEA AND COFFEE SERVICES. * Tea, coffee and chocolate were in much de- mand in the reign of Queen Anne, the coffee and chocolate houses supplying these beverages as their staple article. Tea was more of a home drink, and was very dear. Wood mentions that the first coffee-house was at… … TEA-POT (REVERE) ; MRS. E. HOLBROOK. was opened by a foreigner in 1652, in S. Michael's Alley, Cornhill, while Hatton says : " I find it Re- corded that one James Farr, a barber, who kept the coffee House which now is the Rainbow, by the Inner Temple Gate, (one of the first in Eng- land) was in the…
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