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pepys diary: leagues of crafty and unruly gentlemen

There were rumors that he might succeed William Coventry as James’s secretary, and it is strange that he did not. Much lesser men, like Sir Joseph Williamson, took the short step from the civil service into government. But Pepys had … Continue reading

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pepys: finally, a man of fame…

Samuel Pepys’s diary of the 1660′s, Restoration England at its baddest and bawdiest. Human nature has not changed that much… Not until then did any member of the Navy Board think of going downriver. On Wednesday, June 12, 1666, the … Continue reading

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The king and his ladies

Samuel Pepys diaries gave us a view of the English Restoration unlike any other. It was the work of a slightly demented genius who described sex, Sundays, scandals, fires, plagues, office politics and marital discords in a manner that spared … Continue reading

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