Pepys Diary

Started reading one of the Pepys Diaries of which I have three.  We just finished watching the Kit Harrington 'Gunpowder" show last night and very gruesome it was. Pepys was born just after the Guy Fawkes plot but even 60 years later Pepys is worried about papists and gunpowder and fire. The great fire of London occurred two months before this diary started.  He gets lost in burned areas and it is still smoking and hot.  At the end of the year he tallies his pay which comes to 2,986 pounds which was 573 less than his previous year.  This is about the same pay as I got in my first year being $8000 and that is 350 years later. He is an administrator for the royal navy so gets a good pay.

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