Terrified that he might have to abandon his most valuable possessions to the flames, he dashes outside and digs a hole.

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The Samurai Diary looks like black version of Dio's Diary, but missing the "DIO" text on it's cover and instead replaced with "Samurai" in Japanese.As the Great Fire consumed London at an alarming rate in September 1666, Pepys chose to rescue a large wheel of valuable cheese. The entries detail Pepys' encounter with American Homo erectus specimens (imported to London as beasts of burden) and his formation of the "transformational theory of life", thus causing evolutionary theory to gain a foothold in scientific thought in the 17th century rather than the 19th. But did you know that Pepys ‘rescued’ a cheese during the Great Fire of London and once kept a lion as a pet? Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold.

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However, Pepys’ private diary reveals that a few goods had indeed found their way into his own coffers, as ‘perks of the job’, but there was not enough evidence to convict him. Pepys tells us: “I did kiss her mouth, reflecting upon it that I did kiss a Queen, and that this was my birth-day, 36 years old, that I did first kiss a Queen. He also served as Master (without ever having been a Freeman or Liveryman) of the Clothworkers' Company (1677-8).At his death, there were more than 3,000 volumes, including the diary, all carefully catalogued and indexed; they form one of the most important surviving 17th-century private libraries.

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Pepys learned arithmetic from a private tutor and used models of ships to make up for his lack of first-hand nautical experience, and ultimately came to play a significant role in the board's activities.Samuel's diary tells us about ordinary things like going to the coffee house and what he ate for dinner. The Introduction in Volume I provides a scholarly but readable account of "The Diarist", "The Diary" ("The Manuscript", "The Shorthand", and "The Text"), "History of Previous Editions", "The Diary as Literature", and "The Diary as History". The Dutch raid was a major concern in itself, but Pepys was personally placed under a different kind of pressure: the Navy Board and his role as Clerk of the Acts came under scrutiny from the public and from Parliament. Phil Gyford's Samuel Pepys's diary, which provides a daily entry from the diary, detailed background articles, plus annotations from readers. S. Knighton has written: "From its reporting of these two disasters to the metropolis in which he thrived, Pepys's diary has become a national monument.