Roman soldier; here also were found a fragment of a statue of
Hercules and a female head. In front of the Coffee-house
immediately west of St. Martin's Church, stood Ludgate.

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The London Coffee-house was noted for its publishers' sales of
stock and copyrights. It was within the rules of the Fleet prison;
and in the Coffee-house were "locked up" for the night such juries
from the Old Bailey Sessions, as could not agree upon verdicts. The
house was long kept by the grandfather and father of Mr. John
Leech, the celebrated artist.

A singular incident occurred at the London Coffee-house, many years
since: Mr. Brayley, the topographer, was present at a party here,
when Mr. Broadhurst, the famous tenor, by singing a high note,
caused a wine-glass on the table to break, the bowl being separated
from the stem.

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From _The Kingdom's Intelligencer_, a weekly paper, published by
authority, in 1662, we learn that there had just been opened a "new
coffee-house," with the sign of the Turk's Head, where was sold by
retail "the right coffee-powder," from 4s. to 6s. 8d. per pound;
that pounded in a mortar, 2s; East Indian berry, 1s. 6d.; and the
right Turkie berry, well garbled, at 3s. "The ungarbled for lesse,
with directions how to use the same." Also Chocolate at 2s. 6d. per
pound; the perfumed from 4s. to 10s.; "also, Sherbets made in
Turkie, of lemons, roses and violets perfumed; and Tea, or Chaa,
according to its goodness. The house seal is Morat the Great.
Gentlemen customers and acquaintances are (the next New Year's Day)
invited to the sign of the Great Turk at this new Coffee-house,
where Coffee will be on free cost." Morat figures as a tyrant in
Dryden's "Aurung Zebe." There is a token of this house, with the
sultan's head, in the Beaufoy collection[359].

Another token in the same collection, is of unusual excellence,
probably by John Roettier. It has on the obverse, Morat ye Great
Men did mee call,--Sultan's head; reverse, Where eare I came I
conquered all.--In the field, Coffee, Tobacco, Sherbet, Tea,
Chocolate, retail in Exchange Alee. "The word Tea," says Mr. Burn,
"occurs on no other tokens than those issued from 'the Great Turk'
Coffee-house, in