no fucking lie, William of William-and-Mary was prone to prosecuting coffeemen and their patrons for uttering and spreading, AND I QUOTE, “false news”
Weirdly, coffeehouses and pirate ships were both loci for Jacobite sentiment in the years following the Glorious Revolution. I don’t really have any conclusions to draw from that; it is just a fact.
18th century coffeehouses addendum
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