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Excerpt from Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S, Vol. 3 of 4: Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II I rose and dressed myself, and I like myself mightily in it, and so do my wife. Being dressed, to church; and after church pulled my Lady Pen and Mrs. Markham into my house to dinner, and Sir J. Minnes he got Mrs. Pegg along with him. I had a good dinner for them, and very merry; and so, it being very cold, to White Hall, and was mighty fearfull of an ague, my vest being new and thin, and the coat out not to meet before, upon my vest. I waited in the gal lery till the Council was up, and did speak with Mr. Cooling, my Lord Chamberlain's secretary, who tells me my Lord Generall is become mighty low in all people's opinion, and that he hath received several slurs from the King and Duke of York. The people at Court do see the difi'erence between his and the Prince's management, and my Lord Sandwich's. That the business which he is put upon, of crying out against the Catholiques and turning them out of all employment, will undo him, when he comes to turn the officers out of the army, and this is a thing of his own seeking. That he is grown a drunken sot, and drinks with nobody but Troutbecke, whom nobody else will keep company with, of whom he told me this story; that once the Duke of Albemarle, in his drink, taking notice, as of a wonder, that Nan Hide should ever come to be Duchess of York: Nay, says Troutbecke, ne'er wonder at that; for if you will give me another bottle of wine, I will tell you as great, if not greater, a miracle. And what was that, but that our dirty Besse, meaning his Duchess, should come to be Duchess of Albemarle? Sir G. Carteret shows me a long letter, all in cipher, from my Lord Sandwich to him. The contents he hath not yet found out, but he tells me my Lord is not sent for home, as several people have en quired after of me. Begun to read Potter's Discourse upon which pleases me mightily. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S, Vol. 3 of 4
• Subtitle: Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reign of Charles II and James II (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Samuel Pepys
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 628
• EAN: 9781333126667
• ISBN: 1333126662
• ID: 13781113
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 829 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 33 mm
• Date of publishing: 03. August 2016

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