Under lock and key From Mrs. Pepys 'cup of China tea drunk to treat a cold, to 1678 when the East India Company began importing tea for resale, the quantity of tea reaching Britain increased by 200 times, not counting the tea brought in privately by ships' masters or smuggled in by other means.
小茶匣上鎖，女主人執壺從匹普夫人那杯治感冒的中國茶，到一六七八年英屬東印度公司正式以茶為進口商品，茶葉進口的數量成長兩百多倍，這還不包括船長私帶與其它走私茶。