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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 49: January 1666-67 (Unabridged) JANUARY 1666-1667 January 1st. Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being now grown old, and the Thames covered with ice. Up, and to the office, where all the morning busy....
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 47: November 1666 (Unabridged) November 1st. Up, and was presented by Burton, one of our smith's wives, with a very noble cake, which I presently resolved to have my wife go with to-day, and some wine, and house-warme...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 46: October 1666 (Unabridged) October 1st, 1666. Up, and all the morning at the office, getting the list of all the ships and vessels employed since the war, for the Committee of Parliament. At noon with it to...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1666 N.S. January 1st (New-Yeare's Day). Called up by five o'clock, by my order, by Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business of the Pursers; and so, without eating or drinking, till three in...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 45: August/September 1666 (Unabridged) August 1st. Up betimes to the settling of my last month's accounts, and I bless God I find them very clear, and that I am worth L5700, the most that ever my book did...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666 (Unabridged) DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. JULY 1666 July 1st (Sunday). Up betimes, and to the office receiving letters, two or three one after another from Sir W. Coventry, and sent as many to him, being...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 43: May/June 1666 (Unabridged) May 1st. Up, and all the morning at the office. At noon, my cozen Thomas Pepys did come to me, to consult about the business of his being a justice of the Peace, which...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 41: January/February 1665-66 (Unabridged) JANUARY & FEBRUARY 1665-1666 January 1st (New-Yeare's Day). Called up by five o'clock, by my order, by Mr. Tooker, who wrote, while I dictated to him, my business of the Pursers; and so, without...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66
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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 42: March/April 1665-66 (Unabridged) March 1st. Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting and at noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W. Pen at the White Horse in...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1665 N.S. January 1st (Lord's day). Lay long in bed, having been busy late last night, then up and to my office, where upon ordering my accounts and papers with respect to my understanding my last year's gains...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 40: November/December 1665 (Unabridged) November 1st. Lay very long in bed discoursing with Mr. Hill of most things of a man's life, and how little merit do prevail in the world, but only favour; and that, for myself,...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 37: August 1665 (Unabridged) August 1st. Slept, and lay long; then up and my Lord [Crew] and Sir G. Carteret being gone abroad, I first to see the bridegroom and bride, and found them both up, and he...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 39: October 1665 (Unabridged) October 1st (Lord's day). Called up about 4 of the clock and so dressed myself and so on board the Bezan, and there finding all my company asleep I would not wake them, but...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 38: September 1665 (Unabridged) September 1st. Up, and to visit my Lady Pen and her daughter at the Ropeyarde where I did breakfast with them and sat chatting a good while. Then to my lodging at Mr. Shelden's,...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 36: July 1665 (Unabridged) DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS. JULY 1665 July 1st, 1665. Called up betimes, though weary and sleepy, by appointment by Mr. Povy and Colonell Norwood to discourse about some payments of Tangier. They gone, I...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 35: May/June 1665 (Unabridged) May 1st. Up and to Mr. Povy's, and by his bedside talked a good while. Among other things he do much insist I perceive upon the difficulty of getting of money, and would fain...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. January 1st, Went to bed between 4 and 5 in the morning with my mind in good temper of satisfaction and slept till about 8, that many people came to speak with me. Among others one...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65
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    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65 (Unabridged) March 1st. Up, and this day being the day than: by a promise, a great while ago, made to my wife, I was to give her L20 to lay out in clothes against Easter,...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 32: December 1664
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 32: December 1664
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 32: December 1664 (Unabridged) December 1st. Up betimes and to White Hall to a Committee of Tangier, and so straight home and hard to my business at my office till noon, then to dinner, and so to my...
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  • Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664
    Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 31: October/November 1664 (Unabridged) October 1st. Up and at the office both forenoon and afternoon very busy, and with great pleasure in being so. This morning Mrs. Lane (now Martin) like a foolish woman, came to the Horseshoe...
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