the painter's ink." Henry claims that he had never seen this person sneeze and that they carried a reputation of never getting colds. The author writes about Sir George Rooke's expedition to Vigo in 1702, the English fleet landed and plundered cargo which included "snuff in galleons" which had arrived in Cadiz from Havana. The loot was said to weigh around 50 tons and was sold by sailors at ports in Plymouth, Portsmouth and Chatham for 3d and 4d. Henry describes the rules of offering snuff set out by Robert Steele in the spectator, they included the pinch scornful, the pinch surly, the pinch politick and the pinch careless. Henry describes how the popularity of snuff grew amongst women, he gives an example a lady named Mrs Margaret Thompson who died on the 2nd April 1776 and left a will directing to be buried in snuff. The will requested that the "six greatest snuff takers in the parish of St James Westminster," Furthermore her request was continued that six maidens were to be her pall bearers that they were to wear snuff coloured beaver hats instead of black. Margaret also wanted them to each carry a box filled with " the best scotch snuff to take as their refreshments as the go along." she also made a request that her servant Sarah Stuart walk before her corpse, distributing every 20 yards a large handful of snuff to the ground and upon the crowd. The most expensive snuff to be sold is said to have cost £3 per pound in weight and that it was sold with a rose scented vinegar from Spain called Vinagrillo, it was used to soften the snuff. Spanish Sabullia was another brand of snuff, it was a fine red brick powder believed to have medicinal properties. it was believed to harden the gums and became a popular toothpaste until 1890. In 1852 cigarettes are first mentioned but very few were sold until 1866 when Russian cigarettes became popular, snuff began to decline after this and it is said that one of the reasons behind snuffs decline was an increase in popularity for white handkerchiefs. The Herb Shop pages 36 - 42 Chapter five begins with a poem: "Excellent herbs had our fathers of old- Excellent herbs to ease their pain - Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane. Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue (Almost singing themselves they