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2026-07-04 09:47:14 UTC

Samuel Pepys on Nostr: In the Duke’s chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the ...

In the Duke’s chamber there being a Roman story in the hangings, and upon the standards written S.P.Q.R., Sir G. Carteret came to me to know the meaning; which ignorance is not to be borne in a Privy Counsellor, methinks, that a schoolboy should be whipt for not knowing.