Samuel Pepys, English Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, and diarist, 1666. Artist: Unknown.

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Samuel Pepys, English Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board, and diarist, 1666. Pepys' (1633-1703) secret diary presents a compelling first hand account of the Second Anglo-Dutch War (1665-1667), the Great Plague (1665), and the Great Fire of London (1666). From the Mayson Beeton Collection.

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