Summary

The Latham & Matthews edition say these “were used in fireships, as combustible material, and for cleaning ships’ bottoms by singeing off the tar (‘breaming’)”. (vol. VII, p.331)

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There are two cases when the Diary could have referred to "reeds" in this connection.
The problem seems to be that Pepys' shorthand is open to interpretation, leaving Wheatley and L&M taking different positions.

The first time was on 5 August, 1660, and the discussion starts at
https://www.pepysdiary.com/diary/…

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References

Chart showing the number of references in each month of the diary’s entries.

1666