Beer & 'baccy: a Christmas Miscellany of Jovial Literature
Beer & 'baccy: a Christmas Miscellany of Jovial Literature
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I am alluding to iverpool and Glasgow. Ihaveabceady pointed out that originally we obtained our tobacco from France. After a tim& when our demand increased, we keceivea it from Spanish and Portuguese mer- chants, who imported it from America; but in James the First's reiffn, when Virginia waft colonised, we began to receive it direct. The very first bales reached Liverpool in 1616. The trade Digitized by Google 'wortld have immediately assumed enor- nckous proportions, but for ^ears it had svt:... every step to coi^nd with the pre- jndioes of the King and his son Charles.
Iix 1619 James published hi» notorious ** Oounterblast, and from that time ^He activit;^ of his tobaccophobia knew no intermission. In 16^ he even ^went the len^h of ordering the colo- nists of Virginia to breed silkworms azLcl set up^ looms, describing silk in his proclamation as ^' a rich and solid com- modity,^ preferable to tobacc©." The sturdy planters, however, although they -were somewhat intimidated by the royal displeasure, failed to obey the com- mands they received, for in 1631 we find Charles ordering the Virginians to send to the mother country " some Ijetter fruit than tobacco and smoke," ajid so avoid ** the speedy ruin likely to befall the eoltnies, and the danger to th.e bodies and manners of the English people through the excepsive growth of tobacco." Is^otwithstanding these arbi- trary exercises of authority, the trade increased.
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I am alluding to iverpool and Glasgow. Ihaveabceady pointed out that originally we obtained our tobacco from France. After a tim& when our demand increased, we keceivea it from Spanish and Portuguese mer- chants, who imported it from America; but in James the First's reiffn, when Virginia waft colonised, we began to receive it direct. The very first bales reached Liverpool in 1616. The trade Digitized by Google 'wortld have immediately assumed enor- nckous proportions, but for ^ears it had svt:... every step to coi^nd with the pre- jndioes of the King and his son Charles.
Iix 1619 James published hi» notorious ** Oounterblast, and from that time ^He activit;^ of his tobaccophobia knew no intermission. In 16^ he even ^went the len^h of ordering the colo- nists of Virginia to breed silkworms azLcl set up^ looms, describing silk in his proclamation as ^' a rich and solid com- modity,^ preferable to tobacc©." The sturdy planters, however, although they -were somewhat intimidated by the royal displeasure, failed to obey the com- mands they received, for in 1631 we find Charles ordering the Virginians to send to the mother country " some Ijetter fruit than tobacco and smoke," ajid so avoid ** the speedy ruin likely to befall the eoltnies, and the danger to th.e bodies and manners of the English people through the excepsive growth of tobacco." Is^otwithstanding these arbi- trary exercises of authority, the trade increased.
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