SMOKING AND TAKING SNUFF.

SMOKING AND TAKING SNUFF. 

Tobacco is said to have been first brought into England by
Captain R Greenfield and Sir Francis Drake about the year 1586,
during the reign of Elizabeth. Alehouses are at present licensed
to deal in tobacco, but it was not so from the beginning ; for so
great an incentive was it thought to drunkenness, that it was
strictly forbidden to be taken in any alehouses in the reign of
James I. A pamphlet on the Natural History of Tobacco, in the
Harleian Miscellany, says, " The English are said to have had
their pipes of clay from the Virginians," who were styled bar-
barians ; and the origin of manufacturing tobacco into snuff is
thus given to the sister kingdom. " The Irishmen do most com-
monly powder their tobacco, and snuff it up their nostrils."

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 Maunder, Samuel, 1785-1849

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