mêrem réhte ézen súlin danne die wurme." Albinus, in his _Meissnische
Chronicle_, says they had their name from their _wolfish_ nature.]

[Footnote 2: _The Saxons in England_, vol. i. p. 9. note.]

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THE FIRST COFFEE-HOUSES IN ENGLAND.

As a Supplement to your "NOTES ON COFFEE," I send you the following
extracts.

Aubrey, in his account of Sir Henry Blount, (MS. in the Bodleian
Library), says of this worthy knight,

"When coffee first came in he was a great upholder of it, and hath
ever since been a constant frequenter of coffee-houses, especially
Mr. Farres at the Rainbowe, by Inner Temple Gate, and lately John's
Coffee-house, in Fuller's Rents. The first coffee-house in London
was in St. Michael's Alley, in Cornhill, opposite to the church,
which was set up by one ---- Bowman (coachman to Mr. Hodges, a
Turkey merchant, who putt him upon it) in or about the yeare 1652.
'Twas about 4 yeares before any other was sett up, and that was by
Mr. Farr. Jonathan Paynter, over against to St. Michael's Church,
was the first apprentice to the trade, viz. to Bowman.--Mem. The
Bagneo, in Newgate Street, was built and first opened in Decemb.
1679: built by ... Turkish merchants."

Of this James Farr, Edward Hatton, in his _New View of London_, 1708,
(vol. i. p. 30) says:--