“On hearing ill rumour that Londoners may…

1665 CE

“On hearing ill rumour that Londoners may soon be urged into their lodgings by Her Majesty’s men, I looked upon the street to see a gaggle of striplings making fair merry, and no doubt spreading the plague well about.

Not a care had these rogues for the health of their elders!” Samuel Pepys Diaries - London, 1665

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John Hayls: Samuel Pepys (1666); oil on canvas 75.6 cm (29.7″) x 62.9 cm (24.7″). National Portrait Gallery

John Hayls: Samuel Pepys (1666); oil on canvas 75.6 cm (29.7″) x 62.9 cm (24.7″). National Portrait Gallery

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