Samuel Pepys, EC4 - Fleet Street

Diarist and Naval Administrator

Born 23rd February 1633
Died 26th May 1703

Inscription reads:
The Cock was opened in 1888 with the fittings from the original tavern on the site of the branch of the Bank of England opposite. The records of the tavern go back to the early seventeenth century.
Pepys says: "April 23, 1668. To the Cock alehouse and drink and eat a lobster, and sang and ... and then Knipp and I to the Temple again, and took boat, it being darkish and to Fox Hall". Alas there are now no Vauxhall Gardens where we can take our "Knipp" but there is still the Cock."

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