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24 August

  1. John Evelyn

    24 August 1652

    My first child, a son, was born precisely at one o'clock.

  2. Samuel Pepys

    24 August 1660

    Office, and thence with Sir William Batten and Sir William Pen to the parish church to find out a place where to build a seat or a gallery to sit in, and did find…

  3. Samuel Pepys

    24 August 1661

    At the office all the morning and did business; by and by we are called to Sir W. Batten’s to see the strange creature that Captain Holmes hath brought with him…

  4. Samuel Pepys

    24 August 1662

    Slept till 7 o’clock, which I have not done a very great while, but it was my weariness last night that caused it. So rose and to my office till church time,…

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