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The Rainbow Coffee House was a famous coffee house located in London's Fleet Street.
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- Brian and edna lavallie rainbow coffee house 20111227 003725 446
- Rainbow coffee house
- Notable people associated with the Rainbow Coffee House
- French exiles
- Others
- References
It was opened by James Farr in 1657, becoming London's second coffee house.
The Rainbow provided a meeting place for freemasons and French refugee Huguenots who established an information centre there.
The Rainbow was also featured in the furor created by Titus Oates. He accused Sir Philip Lloyd of denying the existence of a popish plot there, finding witnesses from amongst the coffee drinkers to testify against him
In 1719 John Woodward wrote a satire The Two Sosias: Or, the True Dr. Byfield at the Rainbow Coffee-House, to the Pretender in Jermyn-Street
Rainbow coffee house
Notable people associated with the Rainbow Coffee House
Many notable Huguenots were associated with the Rainbow Coffee House. However, there were also other German and English notable people.