Status Updates From The Diary of Samuel Pepys, ...

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"The town grows very sickly, and people to be afeard of it; there dying this last week of the plague 112, from 43 the week before, whereof but [one] in Fenchurch Street, and one in Broad Street, by the Treasurer’s office."

"Great fears of the sickness here in the City, it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve as all!"

27 January "...talking with Mr. Slingsby, who is a very ingenious person, about the Mint and the coinage of money. Among other things, he argues that there being 7000000l coined in the Rump time, and, by the Treasurers of that time, it being their opinion that the Rump money was in all payments, one with another, about a tenth part of all their money --"