Tea and Tea Drinking. E-book. Formato PDF Arthur Reade   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

I sent for a cup of tee — a China drink of which I had never drank before, writes Pepys in his diary of the 25th of September, 1660. It appears, however, that it came into England in 1610; but at ten guineas a pound it could scarcely be expected to make headway. A rather large consignment was, however, received in 1657; this fell into the hands of a thriving London merchant, Mr.