Grecian
Coffee House was in Devereux Court, Strand, and named from a Greek, Constantine, who kept it. Close to the Temple, it was a place of resort for the lawyers. Constantine's Greek had tempted also Greek scholars to the house, learned Professors and Fellows of the Royal Society. Here, it is said, two friends quarrelled so bitterly over a Greek accent that they went out into Devereux Court and fought a duel, in which one was killed on the spot.
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The
Cocoa Tree
was a Chocolate House in St. James's Street, used by Tory statesmen and men of fashion as exclusively as
St. James's
Coffee House, in the same street, was used by Whigs of the same class. It afterwards became a Tory club.