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THE COFFEE HOUSES OF OLD LONDON
_One of the most picturesque chapters in the history of coffee–The
first coffee house in London–The first coffee handbill, and the
first newspaper advertisement for coffee–Strange coffee
mixtures–Fantastic coffee claims–Coffee prices and coffee
licenses–Coffee club of the Rota–Early coffee-house manners and
customs–Coffee-house keepers’ tokens–Opposition to the coffee
house–”Penny universities”–Weird coffee substitutes–The proposed
coffee-house newspaper monopoly–Evolution of the club–Decline and
fall of the coffee house–Pen pictures of coffee-house life–Famous
coffee houses of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries–Some Old
World pleasure gardens–Locating the notable coffee houses_