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N Sunday 7 May 1665 by Carl in Boston on Fri 9 May, 10:28am

Musicians tend to copy music rather freely and have been doing it illegally...
N Saturday 6 May 1665 by Robert Gertz on Thu 8 May, 2:27pm

In young Will Penn's letter with its rather touching informality among the...
N Sunday 30 April 1665 by Michael Robinson on Wed 7 May, 10:59pm

"Great fears of the sickenesse here in the City, it being said that two or...
N Friday 5 May 1665 by Pedro on Wed 7 May, 8:08pm

Evelyn and varnish. Of Japanese varnish in particular Evelyn wrote: “This...
N Thursday 4 May 1665 by CGS on Mon 5 May, 7:45pm

Thanks for the letter Jeanine. Hemp, French or English , a nice pinch of...
N Friday 18 January 1660/61 by Frantzouche on Mon 5 May, 8:34am

About the loose monkey: I like to read these cryptic lines as if they were...
N Tuesday 2 May 1665 by Carl in Boston on Sun 4 May, 10:31pm

All right, one last blast on the lobsters People in Maine pack lobsters in...
N Wednesday 3 May 1665 by CGS on Sun 4 May, 8:06pm

many indirect references to the Park of St James by Evelyn and Sam. from...
N Monday 1 May 1665 by Ruben on Sat 3 May, 4:09am

thank you Dirk for the reference. I had completely forgotten the previous...
N Wednesday 26 April 1665 by Bradford on Fri 2 May, 12:43pm

I tried angle brackets, but they do something wicked to the coding. +++...

N Browne, Alexander by CGS on Thu 8 May, 9:16pm

erase the above wrong Browne Alexander Browne, Practitioner of the Art of...
N Shorthand by Todd Bernhardt on Wed 7 May, 11:45am

Another excellent annotation from Michael Robinson related to this subject,...
N Breach by CGS on Tue 6 May, 9:25pm

Breach a word of many parts, but nae mention of harbour. breach, n. [OED ] ...
N Cutler, Sir John by Pedro on Mon 5 May, 5:29pm

Sir John Cutler. Financer of six Cutlerian lectures, which were founded for...
N Isle of Wight by Pedro on Mon 5 May, 4:56pm

Some 17C views by Lambert Doomer http://freespace.virgin.net/iw.history/...
N Texel, Netherlands by Australian Susan on Mon 5 May, 1:26am

Even as far as Australia. See http://www.texel.org.au/
N International trade by JWB on Sun 4 May, 4:26pm

The Old Colonial System” George Louis Beer http://books.google.com/books?...
N Blount, Col. Thomas by Pedro on Fri 2 May, 10:16pm

Blount. According to L&M he was of Wricklemarsh, south of Blackheath, Kent...
N Carriages by CGS on Thu 1 May, 6:35pm

insight to problems of travel. It caseth the People of their great Charge...
N Pepys' home in Seething Lane by Dorota on Sun 27 Apr, 2:23pm

of course not pages but dates;) sorry :)

N Carteret and the King by Michael de Carteret on Fri 22 Feb, 2:00pm

Please see our Official History at the website
N St Margaret's Church, Westminster by Rich Roach on Sun 17 Feb, 2:53pm

I just read that the poet John Keats's brother, George, was married at St....
N Inventory of the tailor shop by Margaret on Wed 23 Jan, 10:16pm

Reading the inventory of "Mrs. Mary May's" belongings made me wonder what an...
N 'The Plot Against Pepys' by James Long and Ben Long by Paul Dyson on Wed 2 Jan, 1:31pm

A very enjoyable post-Christmas read. It's interesting to see that two of...
N Sam’s N-A-V-Y by Signior Pedro on Tue 1 Jan, 12:10am

Gratias Jeannine, I will try a sing along with Mr.Hill and Mr. Andrews on...

N Recent Press by Barry P. Reich on Wed 30 Apr, 2:57pm

Paper Cuts is a blog for the editors of the New York Times Book Review. The...
N Server move complete by Phil Gyford on Fri 4 Apr, 1:12pm

Sorry about that -- I'd put a bunch of diary entries into the system with...
N New contextual pop-up help by Bradford on Mon 31 Mar, 12:50pm

Works very well with latest update to Mozilla Firefox, discovered by...
N Server move on Saturday by Elizabeth Anthony on Thu 27 Mar, 12:49am

Thank you for your labor of love. I always look forward to each posting.
N Hundreds of Wikipedia pages now included by Pedro on Wed 27 Feb, 10:47pm

“adding Wikipedia content” Wikipedia is a great asset, but being at...

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