Sam Pepys – His Diary: Cambridge Bound
Samuel Pepys sets out a-horseback for Cambridge.
Friday 2 August 1661
At the office all the morning. At noon Dr. Thos. Pepys dined with me, and after dinner my brother Tom came to me and then I made myself ready to get a-horseback for Cambridge. So I set out and rode to Ware, this night, in the way having much discourse with a fellmonger, a Quaker, who told me what a wicked man he had been all his life-time till within this two years. Here I lay.
