title: Eyewitness Accounts London's Great Plague
author: Samuel Pepys
description: Samuel Pepys was appointed to the position of Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board in July 1660, rising to become an MP and Chief Secretary to the Admiralty. His diary, which he kept for almost ten years, is a vivid account of some of the most momentous events of seventeenth-century England.
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  # Diary of Samuel Pepys, January 1666/67
  
  
  ### Samuel Pepys
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  January 1st. Lay long, being a bitter, cold, frosty day, the frost being now
  grown old, and the Thames covered with ice. Up, and to the office, where all
  the morning busy. At noon to the 'Change a little, where Mr. James Houblon and
  I walked a good while speaking of our ill condition in not being able to set
  out a fleet (we doubt) this year, and the certain ill effect that must bring,
  which is lamentable. Home to dinner, where the best powdered goose that ever I
  eat. Then to the office again, and to Sir W. Batten's to examine the
  Commission going down to Portsmouth to examine witnesses about our prizes, of
  which God give a good issue! and the