The First Written Mention of Tea by an Englishman

Dutch East Indiaman (Dutch East India Cargo Vessel)The earliest mention of tea—as “chaw”—by an Englishman is the famous Wickham letter of 1615.The letter was found in a set of old records entitled Japan Miscellanies, consisting of copies of letters from Richard Wickham, the East India Company’s factor at Hirado (Japan’s only port of trade to…