Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… weight. Alehouse and taverns were places for Pepys to sound out the public mood, offering a drink in tacit return for an acquaintance’s views. Always curious about the latest ideas, Pepys also put himself among the ‘ great confluence of … for gentlemen. Pepys joined in February 1665, having been nominated by Thomas Povey, a colleague. Many of Pepys’s acquaintances were already members, while the Society’s president Lord Brouncker, had recently joined the Navy Board. It …
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