Friday 16 September 1664 There is no way of summarizing today's diary entry which is long and varied. A debtor Sir W Warren gives Pepys L100 (pounds) in a local tavern, the Sun, situated at the rear of the Royal Exchange. Sir Warren was careful to be discrete with his transaction. Pepys takes a carriage home to celebrate and as an extra security precaution. Later on in the entry he writes that...
Pepys and a contemporary diarist John Evelyn
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