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The introduction of coffee to Oxford was made by a Greek. Nathaniel Conopios from Crete became the first person in recorded history to prepare and serve coffee in England. He would get up in the morning and prepare his morning coffee. Nathaniel Kanopios, after the hanging of Cyril (1638), fled to England, where he was received by King Charles I and Archbishop Laud. They sent him to study theology at Balliol College, Oxford, where he attracted attention due to his great learning and the Byzantine music he composed. He was the first to introduce the use of coffee to Oxford. John Evelyn’s diary (1620–1706) records: “During my stay at the college [Balliol College] there arrived: a certain Nathaniel Conopios (Nathaniel Kanopios), from Greece, sent by Cyril, Patriarch of Constantinople, who, many years later upon his return, was ordained (as I was given to understand) Bishop of Smyrna. He was the first I ever saw drinking coffee, a habit which did not come to England until thirty years later.” There, he was allowed to officiate in the Anglican Christ Church, where he served as a priest, until he was expelled by fanatical supporters of Cromwell, after which he moved to Amsterdam. There, the Calvinists tried to persuade him to translate Calvin’s theological treatises into Greek (according to others, the Lutherans bribed him to translate Luther’s teachings) so that they would become known to the faithful of the Eastern Church.