...pray for the dead." " I staid up " said Pepys the diarist, writing on January 1 7th, 1660, " I staid till the bellman came by with his bell just under...one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning '." If this paper were written for a Society which was Literary rather than Antiquarian, quotations...

...Another duty of the bellman was to report on the weather; cf. Pepys, Jan. 16, 1659 — 1660: "I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell just under...one of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning ' " — (one of the many vivid strokes which make the Diary so graphic). The Bellman of London was...

...again;" or lastly, as here, with more of circumstance: "I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, as I was 'writing of this very line,...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...through the heat of the sun a great thaw and dirty. 15th. A cold day and a great snow. 16th. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." Feb. 3rd. A most pleasant morning and sunshine. 12th. A most pleasant day as ever I saw. ... In the...

...through the heat of the sun a great thaw and dirty. lath. A cold day and a great snow. 16th. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." Feb. 3rd. A most pleasant monu'ug and sunshine. • 12th. A most pleasant day as ever I saw. ... In...

...drank a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, -ind left my wife and the maid a-washing still. 18th. All the world is at a loss...

...drank a pint of wine, and so parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and left my wife and the maid a-washing still. 1 7th. Early I went to Mr. Crew's,...

...or lastly, as here, with more of circumstance : " I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell under my window, as I was writing of this -very line,...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning.' " Such passages are not to be misunderstood. The appeal to Samuel Pepys years hence is unmistakable....

...it came to be so late. So parted, and thence home, where I found my wife and maid a-washing. I staid up till the bell-man came by with his bell just under...of the clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning." I then went to bed, and left my wife and the maid a-washing still. ijtk. To Whitehall, and coming back...

...information. In the Diary of Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) is this item, referring to London, England. "I staid up till the bellman came by with his bell, just under my window, as I was writing this very line, and cried 'Past one of the Clock, and a cold, frosty, windy morning!" In 1701 there...