Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) began his diary on 1 Jan 1660,
immediately prior to the Restoration of Charles II to the throne
and the subsequent loosening of the rigid and social code
enforced during the Puritan Commonwealth. As variously, Clerk to
the Council, a Member of Parliament, a prisoner in the Tower of
London, twice Secretary to the Admiralty and President of the Royal
Societ y, Pepys was in a unique position to observe and record the
details of a ten-year period of English history which included not
only the R estoration, but the Great Plague of 1665 and the Fire of
London of the following year. However, it was not only for affairs
of state which took up the great diarist's interest, for he was a
regular attendant at the King's Theatre, was a hearty eater and
drinker and delighted in recording his fondness of women,
especially his own and his friends' young servant girls.
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