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17 August

  1. John Evelyn

    17 August 1641

    I passed again through Delft, and visited the church in which was the monument of Prince William of Nassau,—the first of the Williams, and savior (as they call him)…

  2. John Evelyn

    17 August 1653

    I went to visit Mr. Hyldiard, at his house at Horsley (formerly the great Sir Walter Raleigh's), where met me Mr. Oughtred, the famous mathematician; he showed me a…

  3. John Evelyn

    17 August 1654

    Passed through Pontefract; the castle famous for many sieges both of late and ancient times, and the death of that unhappy King murdered in it (Richard II.), was…

  4. Samuel Pepys

    17 August 1660

    To the office, and that done home to dinner where Mr. Unthanke, my wife’s tailor, dined with us, we having nothing but a dish of sheep’s trotters. After dinner by…

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