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Richard Steele

Note 91 — SCENE II.—St. James's Park.

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Garraway's coffee house, in Change Alley. Thomas Garraway, tobacconist and coffee-man, was the first to retail tea, which he recommended for the cure of all disorders. See Tatler, No. 147; Spectator, Nos. 403, 457. Garraway's was the resort of merchants.

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