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  • L&M Companion:
    “(d. 1683). Doorkeeper/Housekepper to the Navy Office 1660-83. His widow Alice succeeded him. She received a ring at Pepys’s funeral.”
    Also according to L&M, he may have also been “Griffith(s), William: Batten’s ward; he appears in his will (1665) as a witness but was given no legacy.”

  • Besides this gent, there be the Messenger, he be one Mr Smith who received 50L per annum.
    http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=16854
    Date: 23/03/2005

  • Mr. Smith appears to be (by name & nation) an Anglo-Saxon Messenger. But he should have a companion, you know, one to come and one to go.http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/looking/ch7.html.gz

  • Mr. Smith appears to be (by name & nation) an Anglo-Saxon Messenger. But he should have a companion, you know, one to come and one to go.
    http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/looking/ch7.html.gz

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References in the diary

1660
Oct: 30
Nov: 21
1662
Mar: 22, 24
Jun: 30
Aug: 24, 30
Sep: 16
Oct: 30
Nov: 23
1663
Feb: 23
Apr: 27
May: 24
Jul: 7
Aug: 21
Sep: 3, 13
Dec: 12, 15
1664
Jun: 12
Aug: 21
1665
Feb: 1