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17 May

  1. John Evelyn

    17 May 1649

    Went to Putney by water, in the barge with divers ladies, to see the schools, or colleges, of the young gentlewomen.

  2. John Evelyn

    17 May 1653

    My servant Hoare, who wrote those exquisite several hands, fell of a fit of an apoplexy, caused, as I suppose, by tampering with mercury about an experiment in gold.

  3. Samuel Pepys

    17 May 1660

    Up early to write down my last two days’ observations. Dr. Clerke came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are come on board already to…

  4. Samuel Pepys

    17 May 1661

    All the morning at home. At noon Lieutenant Lambert came to me, and he and I to the Exchange, and thence to an ordinary over against it, where to our dinner we had…

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