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Diary of Samuel Pepys, August and September 1666. 2 September In describing the Great Fire, Pepys provides evidence of how popular the instrument had become: In a river “full of lighters and boats taking in goods…I observed that hardly one lighter or boat in three that had the goods of a house in, but there was a pair of Virginalls.”
