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Diary of Sam Pepys, Esq. F. R. S: With Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke, and With Numerous Portraits. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Pepys - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Cholmley, who insured as many as would, from drawing of the one blank for in which case there was the whole number of persons to one, which I think was three or four hundred. And so he insured about zoo for zoo shillings, so that he could not have lost if one of them had drawn it; for there was enough to pay the 101. But it happened another drew it, and so he got all the money he took.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, From 1659 to 1669: With Memoir. E-book. Formato PDF Samuel Pepys - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
The original ms. Of the Diary, which gives so vivid a picture of manners in the reign of Charles II., is preserved in Magdalene College, Cambridge; it is in six volumes, containing upwards of 3000 pages, closely written in Rich s system of shorthand, which Pepys doubtless adopted from the possibility of his journal falling into unfriendly hands during his life, or being rashly communicated to the public after his death. The original spelling of every word in the Diary, it is believed, has been carefully preserved by the gentleman who de'ciphered it; and although Pepys's grammar has been objected to, it is thought that the entries derive additional interest from the quaint terms in which they are expressed.