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20 August

John Evelyn
20 August 1654
From hence we had a most pleasant ride over a large heath open like Salisbury Plain, to Grantham, a pretty town, so well situated on the side of a bottom which is…
John Evelyn
20 August 1656
Was a confused election of Parliament called by the Usurper.
Samuel Pepys
20 August 1660
As Sir W. Pen and I were walking in the garden, a messenger came to me from the Duke of York to fetch me to the Lord Chancellor. So (Mrs. Turner with her daughter…
Samuel Pepys
20 August 1661
At the office in the morning and all the afternoon at home to put my papers in order. This day we come to some agreement with Sir R. Ford for his house to be added…

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