The Life, Journals, and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II: Including a Narrative of His Voyage to Tangier, Volume 2R. Bentley, 1841 - Great Britain |
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