title: Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
author: James D. Long
description: <span>"As gripping as any thriller." --<i><i>The Times</i>(London)</i></span><br /><br /><span>"I couldn't put it down, and there aren't many books on the seventeeth century you can say that about." --<i><i>History Today</i></i></span>
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  # The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Aug/Sep 1666
  
  
  ### Translator: Mynors Bright, Editor: Wheatley
  
  
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  August 1st. Up betimes to the settling of my last month's
  
  
  accounts, and I bless God I find them very clear, and that I am worth
  
  
  L5700, the most that ever my book did yet make out. So prepared to
  
  
  attend the Duke of Yorke as usual, but Sir W. Pen, just as I was going
  
  
  out, comes home from Sheernesse, and held me in discourse about
  
  
  publique business, till I come by coach too late to St. James's, and
  
  
  there find that every thing stood still, and nothing done for want of
  
  
  me. Thence walked over the Parke with Sir W. Coventry, who I clearly
  
  
  see is not thoroughly pleased with the late management of the fight,
  
  
  nor with any thing that the Generalls do; only is glad to hear that De
  
  
  Ruyter is o