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...London diarist..
Monday, 5th November 1660...
At the office at night, to make up an account of what the debts of nineteen of the twenty-five ships that should have been paid off, is increased since the adjournment of the Parliament, they being to sit again to-morrow. This 5th day of November is observed exceeding well in the City; and at night great bonfires and fireworks.
...evidently the ghastly and triumphalist tradition had already set in a little over 50 years after the events...
