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  • Title: 227
  • Author(s): Baron Ferdinand De RothChild
  • Date of creation: 1890
  • Extent: 2pp
  • Material: Paper
  • Physical Location: Waddesdon Manor

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( 32 ) the year Queen Anne died, they rose in twenty years to 5,394,000. A chronicler says that the English first learnt, in the wars in the Netherlands under Elizabeth, to drown themselves with immoderate drinking. Whether the taste of drinking was indigenous or acquired, so much was certain that under Queen Anne Cabinet Ministers were far from sober, and even came drunk into the presence of the Queen. Lord Bolingbroke, a member of the Tory ad- ministration, was often found in the morning with a wet napkin bound round his forehead and his eyes to drive away the effects of his intemperance. The intemperance of the subjects of Queen Anne was slight when compared with that of the subjects of her successors. This may partly be accounted for by the recent importation and increased consumption of tea, coffee, and chocolate. One of the first cups of tea ever drunk in England was in the year 1661, by Pepys, who men- tions it as a ‘China drink,’ of which he had never -drunk before. About the same time the East India Company presented the King with two pounds of tea in the way of a choice gift. I have no accurate statistics of the consumption of tea under Queen Anne; but about the year 1730 it
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