Pepys’ diaries tell us a great deal about life in London in the seventeenth century
Samuel Pepys lived in London and was ‘clerk of the acts to the navy office’ in the reign of Charles II. As well as providing a unique window onto daily life in seventeenth-century London, his diary contains many famous ‘set pieces’, including the restoration of the monarchy, the Great Plague, the second Anglo-Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.
On 11 May 1660, the English fleet sailed to Holland to bring Charles II home from exile. Pepys (then aged 27) was on board the flagship Naseby to give us a first-hand account:
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