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Period referred to: 1660s
Sound category: Political > Labour disputes
Title of work: The Diary of Samuel Pepys
Type of publication: Diary
Author: Samuel Pepys
Year of publication: 1666
Page/volume number: 19 December 1666
Samuel Pepys witnesses a seamen’s protest over pay
Thence home, and upon Tower Hill saw about 3 or 400 seamen get together; and one, standing upon a pile of bricks, made his sign, with his handkercher, upon his stick, and called all the rest to him, and several shouts they gave. This made me afeard; so I got home as fast as I could.