I've been reading Pepys diary, and came across the following, written in 1660: /I did send for a cup of tee (a China drink) of which I never had drank before,/ So in 1660 tea was available in London but still sufficiently exotic so that Pepys notes what it is in his diary. -- David Friedman www.daviddfriedman.com http://daviddfriedman.blogspot.com/