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demeanour , of which Dryden was not really guilty , having fallen unfortunately u ^ p on him . Notwithstanding all inquiries , and the following advertisement , the originator of this assault was not until long afterwards generally known : — "Whereas , on Thursday , tbe 18 th instant , in the Evening , Mr . John Dryden was
assaulted and wounded in Rose-street in Covent-garden , by divers men unknown : if any person shall make discovery of the said offenders , to the said Mr . Dryden , or to any Justice of Peace for the Liberty of Westminster , he shall not only receive fifty pounds which is deposited in the hands of Mr . Blanchard , Goldsmith , next door to Temple-bar , for the said purpose , but if the discoverer be himself one of the Actors , he shall have the fifty pounds , without letting his name be known , or receiving the least trouble by any prosecution . "
Ah , John Dryden ! vengeance does not always fall upon the right head : even courts of law , and the most famous justices , make mistakes sometimes . An old writer , "b y name Antony "Wood , says in his Diary , penned
in the year 1654 : " This yeere Jacob , a Jew , opened a coffee-house at the Angel , in the parish , of St . Peter in the East , Hoxton ; and there it was by some who delighted in noveltie , drank . " Two years only before this , coffee was introduced into England , and there cannot have been at that time more than two coffee-houses in
London : one opened in St . Michael ' s Alley , Cornhill , kept by a person named Bowman , who was formerly the coachman of a Turkish merchant ; the other ( which we have before had occasion to refer to ) kept by a Greek , Pasqua , the servant of Daniel Edwards , a Turkish merchant also . Aubrey , who seemed to know only of the house of
Bowman , says : " 'Twas about four years before any other was sett up , and that was by Mr . Parr . " James Earr , we learn from Hatton , was a barber , and prosecuted by an inquest of St . Dunstan ' s-in-the-West , " for making s and selling a sort of liquor called coffee , as a great nuisance , and prejudice to the neighbourhood . " Howel , writing on coffee-houses in 1659 , says : " This coffee-drink hath caused a great sobriety among all nations . Formerly apprentices , clerks , & c ., used to take their morning draughts in ale , beer , or wine , which often made them unfit for business . " That this idea was not entertained
by all wemay be sure , for in 1660 a duty of fourpence was laid upon every gallon of coffee ; and in 1675 , Charles II . issued a proclamation to shut them up as seminaries of sedition . This law was , however , repealed in a few days' time . " Tom ' s Coffee-house , " in Russell-street , Covent-garden , was in its
day a favourite place of resort . " Here you will see , " says De Foe , " blue and green ribbons and stars sitting familiarly , and talking with the same freedom as if they had left their quality and degrees of distance at home . " But though this coffee-house came into some favour , there was a greater one kept in the same street by Daniel Button .
Buttons Coffee-house was established in the year 1712 , and frequented by Pope , Steele , Swift , Savage , Arbuthnot , and Addison , who presided here as the literary chief . This was the office for contributions to the Gwardicm .
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demeanour , of which Dryden was not really guilty , having fallen unfortunately u ^ p on him . Notwithstanding all inquiries , and the following advertisement , the originator of this assault was not until long afterwards generally known : — "Whereas , on Thursday , tbe 18 th instant , in the Evening , Mr . John Dryden was
assaulted and wounded in Rose-street in Covent-garden , by divers men unknown : if any person shall make discovery of the said offenders , to the said Mr . Dryden , or to any Justice of Peace for the Liberty of Westminster , he shall not only receive fifty pounds which is deposited in the hands of Mr . Blanchard , Goldsmith , next door to Temple-bar , for the said purpose , but if the discoverer be himself one of the Actors , he shall have the fifty pounds , without letting his name be known , or receiving the least trouble by any prosecution . "
Ah , John Dryden ! vengeance does not always fall upon the right head : even courts of law , and the most famous justices , make mistakes sometimes . An old writer , "b y name Antony "Wood , says in his Diary , penned
in the year 1654 : " This yeere Jacob , a Jew , opened a coffee-house at the Angel , in the parish , of St . Peter in the East , Hoxton ; and there it was by some who delighted in noveltie , drank . " Two years only before this , coffee was introduced into England , and there cannot have been at that time more than two coffee-houses in
London : one opened in St . Michael ' s Alley , Cornhill , kept by a person named Bowman , who was formerly the coachman of a Turkish merchant ; the other ( which we have before had occasion to refer to ) kept by a Greek , Pasqua , the servant of Daniel Edwards , a Turkish merchant also . Aubrey , who seemed to know only of the house of
Bowman , says : " 'Twas about four years before any other was sett up , and that was by Mr . Parr . " James Earr , we learn from Hatton , was a barber , and prosecuted by an inquest of St . Dunstan ' s-in-the-West , " for making s and selling a sort of liquor called coffee , as a great nuisance , and prejudice to the neighbourhood . " Howel , writing on coffee-houses in 1659 , says : " This coffee-drink hath caused a great sobriety among all nations . Formerly apprentices , clerks , & c ., used to take their morning draughts in ale , beer , or wine , which often made them unfit for business . " That this idea was not entertained
by all wemay be sure , for in 1660 a duty of fourpence was laid upon every gallon of coffee ; and in 1675 , Charles II . issued a proclamation to shut them up as seminaries of sedition . This law was , however , repealed in a few days' time . " Tom ' s Coffee-house , " in Russell-street , Covent-garden , was in its
day a favourite place of resort . " Here you will see , " says De Foe , " blue and green ribbons and stars sitting familiarly , and talking with the same freedom as if they had left their quality and degrees of distance at home . " But though this coffee-house came into some favour , there was a greater one kept in the same street by Daniel Button .
Buttons Coffee-house was established in the year 1712 , and frequented by Pope , Steele , Swift , Savage , Arbuthnot , and Addison , who presided here as the literary chief . This was the office for contributions to the Gwardicm .