It is a coincidence that the two great diarists of the Restoration period, Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, happened to be good friends. Not quite as great a coincidence as it would be nowadays, for Restora­tion London was a small world; still, the two men were unlikely companions. Their backgrounds were very different in an […]

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