Source 3

Extract from the will of Samuel Pepys, catalogue ref: PROB 1/9 

Transcript

…after my more than Fower and Twenty Yeares publique and painfull Service faithfully performed to the Crowne under my late Roijal Maisters King Charles and King James the Second.  

Simplified transcript

after more than twenty four years of public and diligent service carried out faithfully for the Crown, working for their royal majesties, King Charles II and King James II. 

 

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