by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 23, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
In The Brampton Witch Murders, Mr Pepys’s personal inquisitors are off to Brampton in Huntingdonshire in September 1666, where his sister has been accused of witchcraft. They take a hackney coach to Cripplegate, following London’s old Roman wall, to catch... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 22, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
Pepys’s diary itself – I prefer “diaries”, since he ended up with six leather-bound volumes over the course of ten years – was, as you can see, written in shorthand. Bar the names, that is – spot ‘Axe-yard’, where Pepys... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 20, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
This is the iconic portrait of Pepys, which he commissioned from John Hayls in 1666, and which he sat for during March of that year. Pepys recalls one such sitting in his diary: “I sit to have it full of shadows and so almost break my neck looking over my...