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So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 16: May/June 1662 Samuel Pepys 1668
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James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have seen this year, very good, and good discourse.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 28: April/May 1664 Samuel Pepys 1668
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James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have seen this year, very good, and good discourse.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1664 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete 1662 N.S. Samuel Pepys 1668
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James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have seen this year, very good, and good discourse.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete Samuel Pepys 1668
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At noon to the 'Change, where, after business done, Sir W. Rider and Cutler took me to the Old James and there did give me a good dish of mackerell, the first I have seen this year, very good, and good discourse.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1664 Pepys, Samuel 1664
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So we had a dish of mackerell and pease, and so he bid us good night, going to lie on board the hoy, and I to bed.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys, May/Jun 1662 Pepys, Samuel 1662
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Fowlay being North from mee one league off that Islande, hauing fiftie fathome at the South head, and streamie ground, like broken otmell, and one shell being redde and white like mackerell.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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