Exchange alley;" in one of its advertisements,
1662, tea is from 6s. to 60s. a pound.

Competition arose. One Constantine Jennings in Threadneedle-street,
over against St. Christopher's Church, advertised that coffee,
chocolate, sherbet, and tea, the right Turkey berry, may be had as
cheap and as good of him as is anywhere to be had for money; and
that people may there be taught to prepare the said liquors gratis.

Pepys, in his "Diary," tells, September 25, 1669, of his sending
for "a cup of Tea, a China Drink, he had not before tasted." Henry
Bennet, Earl of Arlington, about 1666, introduced tea at Court.
And, in his "Sir Charles Sedley's Mulberry Garden," we are told
that "he who wished to be considered a man of fashion always drank
wine-and-water at dinner, and a dish of tea afterwards." These
details are condensed from Mr. Burn's excellent "Beaufoy
Catalogue," 2nd edition, 1855.

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In Gerard-street, Soho, also, was another Turk's Head Coffee-house,
where was held a Turk's Head Society; in 1777, we find Gibbon
writing to Garrick: "At this time of year (August 14) the Society
of the Turk's Head can no longer be addressed as a corporate body,
and most of the individual members are probably dispersed: Adam
Smith, in Scotland; Burke in the shades of Beaconsfield; Fox, the
Lord or the devil knows where."

The place was a kind of headquarters for the Loyal Association
during the Rebellion of 1745. Here was founded "The Literary Club"
and a select body for the Protection and Encouragement of Art.
Another Society of Artists met in Peter's-court, St. Martin's-lane,
from the year 1739 to 1769. After continued squabbles, which lasted
for many years, the principal artists met together at the Turk's
Head, where many others having joined them, they petitioned the
King (George III) to become patron of a Royal Academy of Art. His
Majesty consented; and the new Society took a room in Pall Mall,
opposite to Market-lane, where they remained until the King, in the
year 1771, granted them apartments in Old Somerset House.

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The Turk's Head Coffee-house, No. 142, in the Strand, was a
favourite supping-house with Dr. Johnson and Boswell, in whose Life
of Johnson are sev