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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