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From the diary of Samuel Pepys (1663-1703)

My Lord being gone, I took Mr. Hill to my Lord Chancellors new
house that is building, and went with trouble up to the top of it
and there is there the noblest prospect that ever I saw in my
life, Greenwich being nothing to it.  And in everything is a
beautiful house---and most strongly built in every respect---and
as if, as it hath, it had the Chancellor for its maister.

Thence with him [Mr. Hill] to his painter, Mr. Hales, who is
drawing his picture---which will be mighty like him, and pleased
me, so that I am resolved presently to have my wife's and mine
done by him, he having a very maisterly hand.

Here I perceive Sir G. Carteret had prepared himself to answer a
Choque of Sir W. Coventry, by offering of himself to show all he
had paid, and what is unpaid and what moneys and assignments he
hath in his hands---which, if he makes good, was the best thing he
ever did say in his life---and the best timed, for else it must
have fallen very foul of him.
		-- Pepys' Diary, 14 Feb. 1666

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