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About Wednesday 3 July 1661

Lightarch on 5 Jul 2014  •  Link

Sakespeare in his will leaves mourning rings for his friends,
a custom which survived well into Victorian times.

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About Pell Mell

Lightarch on 3 Apr 2014  •  Link

Re Peslemesle. In French I've noticed that a circumflex seems to stand for an now omitted letter S. (see meme etc). This would give Pele Mele, pronounceable in the Metropolitan fashion .
(my keyboard doesn't run to a circumflex!)

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About Wednesday 15 February 1659/60

Lightarch on 16 Feb 2013  •  Link

Great to see the diary back again. Thanks and Congratulations