Hi bel...since no one more literary-minded than I has come back to you, I thought I'd better explain it myself.

You asked Don't assume some such CapK. What are Pepy's diaries?

Well, I keep telling you I'm trained in economics, and therefore making silly assumptions is a requirement for me to stay in the club.

However, Samuel Pepys was one of those larger than life characters that you find littering the pages of history. I don't remember his dates, but he was aging during the latter part of the Commonweath (was that up to 1664? Can't remember exactly). He did okay under Noll Cromwell, but flourished under the Restoration because of rampant nepotism.

Rather than me boring you - and everyone else - with my take on things, this reference to Encarta will give you the nutshell:

http://encarta.msn.com/find/Concise.asp?ti=00398000

Happy reading.


The idiot also known as Capfka ...