Samuel Pepys [ Art and Literature / Politics ]
… Pal ace of Westminster and adjoining the Houses of Parliament, the Hall was a venue for well-off Londoners to shop and exchange political news. There Pepys would visit the bookseller Ann Mitchell, to buy newsbooks and chat about their … 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 merchants who … 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 and …
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