Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… court scandal, and being seen there among nobles 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 … who had their own favourite merchants when it came to awarding navy contracts. The connections Pepys established at the Royal Exchange, Whitehall , and Westminster Hall were networks which supplied him with a wealth of foreign, local, court … valued as entertaining company among a range of groups. One such group that attracted Pepys was the newly formed Royal Society, which received its first royal charter in 1662. With the King’s backing, empirical science was a fashionable …
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