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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Royalty Restored/London Under Charles II by J. Fitzgerald Molloy: Coffee, which in this reign became a favourite beverage, was
introduced into London a couple of years before the restoration.
It had, however, been brought into England at a much earlier
period. John Evelyn, in the year 1638, speaks of it being drunk
at Oxford, where there came to his college "one Nathaniel
Conoposis out of Greece, from Cyrill the patriarch of
Constantinople, who, returning many years after, was made Bishop
of Smyrna." Twelve good years later, a coffee-house was opened
at Oxford by one Jacobs, a Jew, where this beverage was imbibed
"by some who delighted in novelty." It was, however, according
to Oldys the antiquarian, untasted in the capital till a Turkey
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