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Dolphin, The (Tower St)

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  • N Glyn on Fri 8 Aug 2003, 10:06pm

    Has Sam been in?

    There are 45 (!) references to the Dolphin in the Diaries, from 11 July 1660 to 26 June 1668, so is the one that he probably liked the best (out of his very wide range of experience) and where you stood the greatest chance of finding him. It must definitely been the bar where everyone knows his name.

    It was very close to his home in Seething Lane (see map)and was larger than most London taverns, with plenty of small rooms and alcoves. Of course it burned down in the Great Fire of 1666 but was soon rebuilt. Its owners throughout the years of the Diaries were Richard and Elizabeth Weedon.

  • N David Quidnunc on Tue 25 Nov 2003, 10:48pm

    Weedons: relatives of Andrew Pearse

    Or possibly they were relatives of Pearse’s wife. Pepys says on 23 November that Pearse and his wife are “akin to the people of the house” and Pearse had been an apprentice there.

    Andrew Pearse’s page:
    http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/689

    23 November 1660
    http://www.pepysdiary.com/archive/1660/11/23/index.php

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References in the diary

1660
Jun: 15
Jul: 11
Oct: 12
Nov: 14, 23
1661
Feb: 4, 26
Mar: 15, 27
Apr: 2, 13, 17, 29
May: 10
Aug: 14, 15
Sep: 9
Oct: 5, 29
Nov: 5, 21, 22
Dec: 12, 19
1662
Jan: 6
Feb: 17
Mar: 6
Apr: 9
Jun: 12
Jul: 3
Aug: 11
Nov: 1, 12, 25
Dec: 10
1663
Sep: 11, 14
Oct: 17, 24
Dec: 15
1664
Oct: 27
Nov: 10
Dec: 22