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Posted on August 27, 2007January 26, 2018 by Kenneth Sutton

William Penn (the Quaker) in Pepys’ Diary

On Friday 26 August 1664, Samuel Pepys mentions William Penn.

This day my wife tells me Mr. Pen, Sir William’s son, is come back from France, and come to visit her. A most modish person, grown, she says, a fine gentleman.

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