Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be “satanic.” However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
BOOKLANDS
Noun
booklands
plural of bookland
Source: Wiktionary
BOOKLAND
Book"land`, Bock"land`, n. Etym: [AS. b; b book + land land.] (O. Eng. Law)
Definition: Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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