The Importance of Being English

The first record of tea written in English came from English merchants abroad. In 1615, Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, wrote in a letter to merchants in Macao requesting that they bring him “a pot of the best sort of chaw”. Peter Mundy, a traveller and merchant who came across tea in Fujian, China in 1637, wrote, “chaa — only water with a kind of herb boyled in it “

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