Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Per L&M Companion:
kt. 1660 (1625 - 1704). Physician in ordinary to Charles II and James II; Gentleman of the Privy Chamber from 1679; at this period living in Covent Garden. He was an ally of the Presbyterians, and acted as an intermediary in most of the negotiations between them and the court 1660-88. In the spring elections of 1679 Pepys resigned his interest at Castle Rising to him and Sir Robert Howard (his ‘honoured friends’) though both had recently revived the charge against him of being a papist. (Howard was elected)