Other books and publications: Diary of Samuel Pepys


Date: 1668-9
Place: London, Middlesex, England

The shorter Pepys. Edited by Robert Latham. Penguin Classics

26-27 Aug 1668

...So I to Mr Batelier's by appointment, where I find my wife and Deb and Mercer -- Mrs Pierce and her husband, son and daughter; and Knipp and Harris; and W. Batelier and his sister Mary and cousin Gumbleton, a good-humoured, fat young gentleman, son to the Jeweller, that dances well. And here danced all night long, with a noble supper.....

23 Feb 1669

...So home, and thence to Mr Botelier's where we supped, and had a good supper; and here was Mr Gumbleton, and after supper some fiddles and so to dance; but my eyes were so out of order that I had little pleasure this night at all, though I was glad to see the rest merry......
William Batelier was a wine merchant at Crutched Friars and had sisters Mary (Pepys’s seamstress) and Susan and a brother Joseph (a wine merchant)

The shorter Pepys. Edited by Robert Latham. Penguin Classics
1668-9

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