taking a peep --

Today's  daily (11 March 1659) entry for Pepys's Diary

(http://www.pepysdiary.com)

starts out

(Sunday.) All the day busy without my band on, putting up my books and things, in order to my going to sea. At night my wife and I went to my father’s to supper, where J. Norton and Chas. Glascocke supt with us, and after supper home, where the wench had provided all things against tomorrow to wash, and so to bed, where I much troubled with my cold and coughing.


What does he mean by "without my band on"?  Enquiring minds want to know!


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