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Puritan Board Doctor
Here's Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859) on the rise of coffee houses in London during the late 17th-century:
There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard and lankhaired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses; Jew coffee houses where dark-eyed moneychangers from Venice and from Amsterdam greeted each other; and Popish coffee houses where, as good Protestants believed, Jesuits planned, over their cups, another great fire and cast silver bullets to shoot the king."
A History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay; reprint; 5-volumes-in-3; "Everyman's Library" series (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1906), pp. 285-286. From Volume 1, Chapter 3. Volume 1 was originally published in 1849.
There were Puritan coffee houses where no oath was heard and lankhaired men discussed election and reprobation through their noses; Jew coffee houses where dark-eyed moneychangers from Venice and from Amsterdam greeted each other; and Popish coffee houses where, as good Protestants believed, Jesuits planned, over their cups, another great fire and cast silver bullets to shoot the king."
A History of England from the Accession of James II by Thomas Babington Macaulay; reprint; 5-volumes-in-3; "Everyman's Library" series (London: J. M. Dent & Sons, Ltd./New York: E. P. Dutton & Company, 1906), pp. 285-286. From Volume 1, Chapter 3. Volume 1 was originally published in 1849.
