6/12/2023 0 Comments Claire tomalin pepys![]() ![]() A week after Pepys's first visit, he was annoyed to see a "busy fellow" arrive, apparently to select the best house for Lord Berkeley, one of the new commissioners. Some of the officers of the departing regime were naturally still about, and his new clerk, Tom Hayter, was in fact one of the existing clerks. ![]() Pepys liked the place so much when he went to take a look on 4 July that he began to worry in case he was not allotted a house as promised, but excluded, or "shuffled out." He was back with two of his new bosses two days later to take possession of the office, and he spent the next day there making an inventory of papers. There was an entry gate, shut at night by the resident porter, making it an early gated community. The Navy Office houses were in Seething Lane, just west of Tower Hill, in a very large, rambling building divided into five substantial residences and office accomodation, with a courtyard and a communal garden stretching north-west to the edge of Tower Hill. "A house came with the Navy Board job, and the story of how Pepys moved into his house, like so much that was happpening all around, is both entertaining and shameful. ![]() (how Sam gets his house in Seething Lane) From Claire Tomalin's "Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self" (pp108-109) ![]()
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