Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… reality: he was ‘ esteemed rich, but endeed very poor’ ( Diary , I, 2). In 1660, much of his time was spent in alehouses and taverns, meeting fellow clerks and local City officeholders. Drinking and gaming were fun ways to pass the … also put himself among the ‘ great confluence of gentlemen’ who joined J ames Harrington’s Rota Club at the Turk’s Head coffeehouse ( Diary , I, 14). This club was debating republican models of government, but it proved short lived, … and statesmen implicitly raised his status. Across London, at the Royal Exchange in Cheapside and in the surrounding coffeehouses , he was also busy making himself known among the merchants who supplied the navy. This was often a rather …
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