r 20d., which seems decidedly
cheap, and in the following year a 5 lb. box for 7s. 6d.--which was
cheaper still.

A Sussex rector, the Rev. Giles Moore, of Horsted Keynes, in 1656 and
again in 1662, paid 1s. for two ounces of tobacco, _i.e._ at the rate
of 8s. per lb. Presumably the rector bought the more expensive
Spanish tobacco and the squire the cheaper Virginian. At the annual
parish feast held at St. Bride's, Fleet Street, London, on May 24,
1666, the expenses included 3d. for tobacco for twenty or more adults.
This too was doubtless Virginian or colonial tobacco. The North Elmham
Church Accounts (Norfolk) for 1673 show that 12s. 4d. was paid for
"Butter, cheese, Bread, Cakes, Beere and Tobacco and Tobacco Pipes at
the goeing of the Rounds of the Towne." On the occasion of a similar
perambulation of the parish boundaries in 1714-15 the churchwardens
paid for beer, pipes and tobacco, cakes and wine. The account-books of
the church and parish of St. Stephen, Norwich, for 1696-97 show 2s. as
the price of a pound of tobacco. These entries, and many others of
similar import, show that at feasts and at social and convivial
gatherings of all kinds, tobacco maintained its ascendancy. Pipes and
tobacco were included in the usual provision for city feasts, mayoral
and other; and smoking was made a particular feature of the Lord
Mayor's Show of 1672. A contemporary pamphleteer says that in the Show
of that year were "two extreme great giants, each of them at least 15
foot high, that do sit, and are drawn by horses in two several
chariots, moving, talking, and taking tobacco as they ride along, to
the great admiration and delight of all the spectators." Among the
guests at a wedding in London in 1683 were the Lord Mayor, Sheriff and
Aldermen of the City, the Lord Chief Justice--the afterwards notorious
Jeffreys--and other "bigwigs." Evelyn records with grave disapproval
that "these great men spent the rest of the afternoon till 11 at
night, in drinking healths, taking tobacco, and talking much beneath
the gravity of judges, who had but a day or two before condemned Mr.
Algernon Sidney."

Although smoking was general among parsons, yet attacks on tobacco
were occasionally heard from pulpits. A Lancashire preacher named
Thomas Jollie, who was one of the ministers ejected from Church
livings by the Act of Uniformity, 1662, has left a manuscript diary
relating to his religious work. In it, under date 1687, he mentions
that he