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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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Mar/Apr 1665/66
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  March 1st. Up, and to the office and there all the morning sitting
  
  
  and at noon to dinner with my Lord Bruncker, Sir W. Batten and Sir W.
  
  
  Pen at the White Horse in Lumbard Streete, where, God forgive us!
  
  
  good sport with Captain Cocke's having his mayde sicke of the plague
  
  
  a day or two ago and sent to the pest house, where she now is, but he
  
  
  will not say anything but that she is well. But blessed be God! a
  
  
  good Bill this week we have; being but 237 in all, and 42 of the
  
  
  plague, and of them but six in the City: though my Lord Bruneker says,
  
  
  that these six are most of them in new parishes where they were not
  
  
  the last week. Here was with us also Mr. Williamson, w