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The first record of tea written in English came from English merchants abroad. In 1615, Richard Wickham, who ran an East India Company office in Japan, wrote in a letter to merchants in Macao requesting that they bring him “a pot of the best sort of chaw”. Peter Mundy, a traveller and merchant who came across tea in Fujian, China in 1637, wrote, “chaa — only water with a kind of herb boyled in it “
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