| Show chocolate at first chocolate was regarded as an in bention of the devil by a considerable class in england during the beven seven tenth century A formidable treatise irea tise was written in order to denounce the use 0 of f the beverage by monks the treatise appeared in 1624 but bu t the monks saw to it by destroying every copy that caw can their wiy that its circulation was small and brief chocolate houses succeeded coffee houses in london as centers of a supposed greater refinement although roger north describes them as centers tor for the benefit of rooks and collies of quality iu allty where gaming is added to all the rest and where plots against the state were hatched by idle fel lows |
