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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 12: September/October 1661

Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703; Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, Baron, 1783-1858 [Editor]; Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 [Editor]; Bright, Mynors, 1818-1883 [Translator]· 3 chapters· 13,363 words

September 1st (Lord's day). Last night being very rainy [the rain] broke into my house, the gutter being stopped, and spoiled all my ceilings almost. At church in the morning, and dined at home with my wife. After dinner to Sir W. Batten's, where I found Sir W. Pen and Captain...

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September 1st (Lord's day). Last night being very rainy [the rain] broke into my house, the gutter being stopped, and spoiled all my ceilings almost. At church in the morning, a...

2. Chapter 2

18th. The next morning up early and begun our march; the way about Puckridge--[Puckeridge, a village in Hertfordshire six and a half miles N.N.E, of Ware.]--very bad, and my wif...

3. Chapter 3

8th. At the office all the morning. After office done, went and eat some Colchester oysters with Sir W. Batten at his house, and there, with some company; dined and staid there...