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Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall

CHAPTER VI
15/44

The berries from which the beverage is made mine host showed to me, and said they had been brought to him by a sea-faring man from Arabia.

I ordered a pot of the drink at a cost of three crowns.

I have heard it said that coffee was not known in Europe or in England till it was introduced by Rawolf in '73, but I saw it at the Royal Arms in '67.
In addition to this list, I ordered for our drinking sweet wine from Madeira and red wine from Burgundy.

The latter-named wine had begun to grow in favor at the French court when I left France five years before.

It was little liked in England.


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