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VII.—Tobacco Culture in England during the Seventeenth Century

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Preserved amongst the English State Papers is a mass of material illustrative of the history of tobacco-growing in this country from the time of its introduction to the time when Government finally succeeded in suppressing its growth—a task which was not accomplished till nearly sixty years had been spent in vigorous legislation on the subject, so strong was the feeling of the British farmer in favour of retaining it as an object of cultivation. The outlines of the history of English tobacco-growing have been already sketched on many occasions, especially since the question has lately been before the public—the antipathy of James I. to the use of the “noxious weed,” his contribution to literature against it, and the successive Proclamations and Acts of Parliament forbidding its culture; all these are matters that have been recently noticed, and need not, therefore, be enlarged upon in the present Paper, the object of which is to bring to the front existing evidence as to the extent of tobacco-cultivation in this country, its success, and the feelings with which its suppression was regarded.

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Copyright © The Society of Antiquaries of London 1888

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page 158 note b State Papers, Domestic, James I. Proc. Coll. No. 74.

page 158 note c State Papers, Domestic, James I. vol. cxv. No. 62.

page 159 note a Report on the Duke of Manchester's Papers (8th Report of Historical MSS. Commissioners. Part II. App. p. 46).

page 159 note b Ibid.

page 159 note c State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. vol. ii. No. 117.

page 159 note d State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. vol. cxvii. No. 15.

page 160 note a Report on the MSS. of the College of Physicians (Historical MSS. Commissioners 8th Report. Part I. App. p. 229).

page 160 note b State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. vol. ccv. No. 53.

page 160 note c Ibid.

page 160 note d State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. Case D. No. 4.

page 160 note e State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. vol. cccxxvi. No. 65.

page 160 note f State Papers, Domestic, Charles I. Book of Petitions, vol. cccciii. p. 66Google Scholar.

page 161 note a Printed in Scobell's Acts, April, 1652.

page 161 note b State Papers, Domestic, 1654, p. of Cal. 65.

page 161 note c State Papers, Domestic, 1654, vol. Ixxix. Nos. 32 and 32a.

page 162 note a State Papers, 1654 (p. of Cal. 211, under dates 11 and 16 June).

page 162 note b State Papers, 1654 (p. of Cal. 211, under date 15 June).

page 162 note c State Papers, Domestic, 1654 (p. of Cal. 229, under date 30 June).

page 163 note a State Papers, Domestic, 1655 (under date 6 March 1654–5).

page 163 note b State Papers, Domestic, 1655, under date 27 March, 1655 (p. of Cal. 100).

page 163 note c Ibid. p. 101.

page 163 note d Ibid. p. 201, date 7 June, 1655.

page 163 note e State Papers, Domestic, 1658–9 (p. of Cal. 55, under date 8 June, 1658).

page 164 note a State Papers (Cal. 1658–9, p. 104, date 31 July).

page 164 note b Ibid.

page 164 note c 12 Car. II. cap. 34.

page 164 note d A State Papers, Domestic, 29 March, 1661 (p. of Cal. p. 550).

page 164 note e See Statutes.

page 165 note a State Papers, Domestic, Charles II. vol. Ixxvi. No. 5.

page 165 note b State Papers, Domestic, for 1667 (p. of Cal. 366).

page 165 note c Report on House of Lords' Papers (8th Report of Historical MSS. Commissioners Report. Part I. App. pp. 138–9).

page 165 note d Act 22 and 23 Car. II. cap. 26.

page 165 note e Report on the MSS. of Mr. Alfred Morrison. Letter from Sir J. Ernley to one of the Commissioners of Customs, 16 June, 1675 (9th Report of Historical MSS. Commissioners. Part II, App. p. 450).

page 165 note f See Treasury Papers, 1694 and 1697.