Y/M/D | Association | Description | Place | Locale | Food | Event | |
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1660/01/01 | Samuel Pepys | Author | Samuel Pepys makes his first entry: Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. I lived in Axe yard, having my wife and servant Jane, and no more in family than us three. | ||||
1660/06/23 | Samuel Pepys | Witness | Pepys diary: there staid to see the King touch people for the King's evil. But he did not come at all, it rayned so - and the poor people were forced to stand all the morning in the rain in the garden. Afterward he touched them in the Banquetting-house. | Banqueting House, London | London | ||
1660/06/23 | Samuel Pepys | Customer | With him to London, changing all my Dutch money at Backwell's for English, and then to Cardinal's Cap (lost), where he and the City Remembrancer who paid for all. - Samuel Pepy, The Diary of Samuel Pepys | Cardinals Wharf | Bankside, Southwark | ||
1666/09/02 | Samuel Pepys | Author | After being woken by his maid who tells us of a great fire they saw in the City, Pepys dresses and goes to the Tower of London: and there got up upon one of the high places ... and there I did see the houses at the end of the London bridge all on fire. | Tower of London | London | Great Fire of London | |
1669/01/31 | Samuel Pepys | Author | And thus ends all that I doubt I shall ever be able to do with my own eyes in the keeping of my journal, I being not able to do it any longer, having done now so long as to undo my eyes almost every time that I take a pen in my hand. |
Particulars for The Diary of Samuel Pepys: | |||
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Art Type | Book | a written or printed work consisting of pages glued or sewn together along one side and bound in covers. | |
written type | Diary | ||
Narrative Arts | Factual | concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it | |
Narrative Arts | Narrative | an account of connected events | |
Narrative Arts | Prose | ordinary written language |
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