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Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 44: July 1666

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By Samuel Pepys
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The diary records daily duties and private affairs of a naval administrator in July 1666, detailing office business, arranging the pressing and shipment of seamen, visits to the Tower and Deptford, and conversations with officials. It mixes social encounters and household notes with financial bookkeeping and emotional reactions, especially compassion for wives and families affected by impressment. Entries report naval strategy debates and shipbuilding plans after action with the Dutch, concerns about militia and coastal defence, and observations on the local progress of the plague, presenting a vivid administrative and personal perspective on wartime London.

ETEXT EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

     Better the musique, the more sicke it makes him
     Contempt of the ceremoniousnesse of the King of Spayne
     Listening to no reasoning for it, be it good or bad
     Many women now-a-days of mean sort in the streets, but no men
     Milke, which I drank to take away, my heartburne
     No money to do it with, nor anybody to trust us without it
     Rather hear a cat mew, than the best musique in the world
     Says, of all places, if there be hell, it is here
     So to bed in some little discontent, but no words from me
     The gentlemen captains will undo us
     To bed, after washing my legs and feet with warm water
     Venison-pasty that we have for supper to-night to the cook's
     With a shower of hail as big as walnuts
     World sees now the use of them for shelter of men (fore-castles)

End of Project Gutenberg's Diary of Samuel Pepys, July 1666, by Samuel Pepys