Pepys letter rebuking John Howe for offering bribe (IMAGE)

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Pepys letter rebuking John Howe for offering bribe

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Pepys Library MS 2851. A letter written by Samuel Pepys on 5th May 1675 rebuking John Howe for offering him the bribe of an enslaved boy.

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The Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge

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