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John Pepys

 

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John Pepys : [speech]

'I rose early this morning, and looked over and corrected my brother John's speech which he is to make the next Apposition'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Sheet

  

John Pepys : [speech]

'At noon my brother John came to me, and I corrected as well as I could his Greek speech against the Apposition, though I believe he himself was as well able to do it as myself. After that, we went to read in the great Officiale about the blessing of bells in the Church of Rome.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Sheet

  

[Samuel and John] Pepys : [Catalogue of his books]

'And so home and to supper, and then saw the Catalogue of my books which my brother hath wrote out, now perfectly Alphabetical; and so to bed.'

Century: 1600-1699     Reader/Listener/Group: Samuel Pepys      Manuscript: Unknown

 

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