THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND

As a Supplement to your "NOTES ON COFFEE," I send you the following extracts. Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian Library), says of this worthy knight, "When coffee first came in he was a great upholder of it, and hath ever since been a constant frequenter of coffee-houses, especially Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John's Coffee-house, in Fuller's Rents. The first coffee-house in London was in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the church, which was set up by one —— Bowman (coachman to Mr. Hodges, a Turkey merchant, who putt…