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21 August

  1. John Evelyn

    21 August 1653

    I heard that good old man, Mr. Higham, the parson of the parish of Wotton where I was born, and who had baptized me, preach after his very plain way on Luke,…

  2. John Evelyn

    21 August 1655

    I went to Ryegate, to visit Mrs. Cary, at my Lady Peterborough's, in an ancient monastery well in repair, but the park much defaced; the house is nobly furnished.…

  3. John Evelyn

    21 August 1657

    Fell a most prodigious rain in London, and the year was very sickly in the country.

  4. Samuel Pepys

    21 August 1660

    This morning I went to White Hall with Sir W. Pen by water, who in our passage told me how he was bred up under Sir W. Batten. We went to Mr. Coventry’s chamber,…

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