Newcastle-on-Tyne.
(Marks illustrated [p. 399].)
(In possession of Messrs. Garrard & Co.)
SEVENTEENTH-CENTURY TEAPOT. 1670.
Presented by Lord George Berkeley to the Honourable East India Company.
(At Victoria and Albert Museum.)
Here is a seventeenth-century advertisement: can Mincing Lane in the twentieth century go better?
As to coffee, it is interesting to read the women’s petition to Parliament, in 1674. They complained that coffee
“made men as unfruitful as the deserts whence that unhappy berry is said to be brought; that the offspring of our mighty ancestors would dwindle into a succession of apes and pygmies, and on a domestic message, a husband would stop by the way to drink a couple of cups of coffee.”