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Ola, what’s up amigos? :) In first steps it is really good if somebody su…
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Malaga Merchant Fireship: 4 guns; bought 1666; sold 1667. (L&M Index) …
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HMS St Patrick a 50-gun Fourth rate ship of the line of the English Royal…
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another version: Like Hermit Poor Like to a hermit poor, in place obscu…
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“All night I weepe” All night I weep, all day I cry, ay me; I still do …
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a lead that is not a lead: http://openlibrary.org/b/OL19574089M/apologie_…
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Summarized from L&M Companion: Third generation of a family of surgeons,…
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Booker, John, 1603-1667. Telescopium uranicum repurgatum & limatum. Or Ph…
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Dryden, John, 1631-1700. Annus mirabilis: the year of wonders, 1666. An h…
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Superb work. When late at night - tired and distracted - I write my own j…
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“I went againe to the ruines, for it was now no longer a Citty.” That si…
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Also, did Monmouth maintain precedence after the birth of the other basta…
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Phi, Terry, and the rest of the Pepys crew: I’ve been reading (and mostl…
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I don’t know what picture you mean Pam — where was it?…
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Sadly, it wasn’t on iPlayer either…. wish I had seen this link earlier!…
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Steve, I have no data about gender bias. I always assumed it was around 5…
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NFriday 8 February 1666/67 by Terry Foreman on Tue 9 Feb, 5:25 pm
“This being Sir W. Pen’s clerk [my Lord Brouncker] took it in snuff, and …
NThursday 7 February 1666/67 by Paul Chapin on Tue 9 Feb, 5:40 am
CGS/csg, I think Background Lurker’s point was that at the time you were …
NWednesday 6 February 1666/67 by Robert Gertz on Mon 8 Feb, 3:43 am
Interesting that so shrewd a fellow as Carteret should leave himself so m…
NSunday 3 February 1666/67 by Bradford on Sun 7 Feb, 10:32 pm
Bacon’s death, the Royal Society’s birth, Pepys, Pliny, and weather figur…
NTuesday 5 February 1666/67 by cum salis grano on Sun 7 Feb, 6:09 pm
It has been said before. e.g. Syrus “Amare et sepere vix deo conceditur”…
NFriday 15 April 1664 by Gordon J Callon on Sun 7 Feb, 1:29 pm
You have an annotation that refers to my “Manuscript Sources of English S…
NSaturday 24 November 1666 by Terry Foreman on Sun 7 Feb, 5:47 am
To be more precise, the prodigious is the unusual in nature, but it seems…
NMonday 4 February 1666/67 by cum salis grano on Sat 6 Feb, 1:07 am
“…But here do D. Gawden give me a good cordiall [ heartfelt greeting (n…
NSaturday 2 February 1666/67 by Terry Foreman on Thu 4 Feb, 10:35 pm
“Years of wonders and prodigies” were common 17c fare E.g., “[The pamph…
NTuesday 29 January 1666/67 by FJA on Thu 4 Feb, 1:17 am
You guys are right, of course. Sorry, my mistake.…