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Accountwalled, but somehow even this is subject to disputation of the detail. https://coffeeinquirer.com/was-coffee-ever-illegal-in-the-uk-unraveling-coffee-history/ https://coffeeinquirer.com/was-coffee-ever-illegal-in-the-uk... (the late 1600s was something of a fraught time for England and especially for Charles II, who had spent some time in exile due to the monarchist loss of the English Civil War)