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| | The English Coffee Houses |
 | | In fact, according to the announcement in The Tatler, "learning" was to be reported "under the title of the Graecian," for it was at this establishment in Devereaux Court, Strand, that the "Learned Club," as the Fellows of the Royal Society were called, continued its regular meetings in a social way. |
 | | As one contemporary observed in 1724: "A Whig will no more go to the Cocoa-Tree than a Tory will be at the Coffee-house, St. James." From the time of Queen Anne until late in the reign of George III, these coffee-houses were the gathering places for statesmen, members of Parliament, and gentlemen of fashion. |
 | | Both the St. James and the Cocoa-Tree, like most coffee-houses that were political in nature, eventually became exclusive clubs, but during the height of the coffee-house period, these establishments were open to anyone who chose to pay his penny at the bar. |
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