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17 April

  1. John Evelyn

    17 April 1649

    I fell dangerously ill of my head; was blistered and let bleed behind the ears and forehead: on the 23d, began to have ease by using the fumes of camomile on embers…

  2. Samuel Pepys

    17 April 1660

    All the morning getting ready commissions for the Vice-Admiral and the Rear-Admiral, wherein my Lord was very careful to express the utmost of his own power,…

  3. Samuel Pepys

    17 April 1661

    By land and saw the arches, which are now almost done and are very fine, and I saw the picture of the ships and other things this morning, set up before the East…

  4. John Evelyn

    17 April 1662

    The young Marquis of Argyle, whose turbulent father was executed in Scotland, came to see my garden. He seemed a man of parts.

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