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I am loth to mock a Guardian news item, but the timely report in your print edition (Does shock find push our love of coffee back to reign of Henry V?, 1 April) fails to mention an earlier excavation in the grounds of Maxwell House, in the village of Brew. Among the relics discovered by the archaeologist Corr Tardo were late Roman amphorae, hinting that Nero may have been drinking a cappuccino as Rome burned.
David Jeffrey
West Malvern, Worcestershire

• Your report may have implications for our interpretation of Shakespeare’s Henry V. If the “tun of treasure” offered by the French ambassador to King Henry contains not tennis balls but coffee beans (no doubt from the then French protectorate of San Serriffe), the implied insult could be that the young king is a hot-headed caffeine-fuelled chancer.
Austen Lynch
Garstang, Lancashire

• Remnants of coffee found in 15th-century cups during an excavation of the drought-stricken Ness reservoir in east Suffolk? Saw what you did there!
Helen Ryan
Blandford Forum, Dorset

• Having fallen, albeit briefly, for the Bob Dylan lyrics April Fools’ Day piece in the paper (Dylan’s draft lyrics for I’m Not There found in a Ginsberg book, 1 April), I found myself in urgent need of a caffeine infusion to restore my wits.
Glenn Hackney
Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire

• This report in your print edition is an April fool joke, right (Palace confirms king’s US state visit as president steps up insults, 1 April)? Not a patch on San Serriffe, by the way.
Lyn Dade
Twickenham, London

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