Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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aka “Jack” per L&M companion. Previously apprenticed to his father, John, a tailor and woollen-draper in Cambridge.
Father John was—I think, following imprecise pronouns—brother to Percival Angier, who “married Elizabeth Pepys, (daughter to Thomas ‘the Red’, Pepys’s great uncle) at St. Sepulchre’s, Cambridge, in 1633. He became a prosperous London business man, with investments in Irish land and E. India stock.”
Mild Spoilers ommitted above. L&M Companion, p. 8.