Tea; Tea -- History; Tea -- Social aspects; Tea trade -- History
And that ignorance nor envy may have no ground or power
to report or suggest that which is here asserted, of the
virtues and excellencies of this precious leaf and
drink, hath more design than truth, for the
justification of himself, and the satisfaction of
others, he hath here enumerated several authors, who in
their learned works have expressly written and asserted
the same and much more in honour of this noble leaf and
drink, viz.--Bontius, Riccius, Jarricus, Almeyda.
Horstius, Alvarez Semeda, Martinivus in his China Atlas,
and Alexander de Rhodes in his Voyage and Missions, in a
large discourse of the ordering of this leaf, and the
many virtues of the drink, printed in Paris, 1653, part
x, chap.13.
And to the end that all persons of eminency and quality,
gentlemen and others, who have occasion for tea in leaf,
may be supplied, these are to give notice that the said
Thomas hath tea to sell from sixteen to fifty shillings
in the pound.
And whereas several persons using coffee have been
accustomed to buy the powder thereof by the pound, or in
lesser or greater quantities, which if kept for two days
loseth much of its first goodness, and forasmuch as the
berries after drying, may be kept, if need require, some
months, therefore all persons living remote from London,
and have occasion for the said powder, are advised to
buy the said coffee-berries ready dried, which being in
a mortar beaten, or in a mill ground to powder, as they
use it, will so often be brisk, fresh, and fragrant, and
in its full vigour and strength, as if new prepaired, to
the great satisfaction of the drinkers thereof, as hath
been experienced by many of the best sort, the said
Thomas Garway hath always ready dried, to be sold at
reasonable rates.
All such as will have coffee in powder, or the berries
undried, or chocolata, may, by the said Thomas Garway,
besupplide to their content; with such further
instructions and perfect directions how to use tea,
coffee, and chocolata, as is or may be needful, and so
as to be efficatious and operative, according to their
several virtues.
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Garway's Circular embodies the redundancy of a modern legal
document with the pretentious ignorance and hifaluting language
of the so-called medical treatises of his day. There are many
ear-marks of both lawyer and doctor in this curious composition,
and we can imagine the ostentatious pride with which Garway
circulated the learned sense and nonsense among patrons no wiser
than himself.
CHAPTER III.
HISTORICAL -- Continued.
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