Winter fishing

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Often appears with: trade, markets, and merchants · sport, hunting, and recreation · quinsborough area · hunting without dogs · honey from fir trees · famine, scarcity, and plenty

Usually: record or table (1) · sudden reversal of fortune (1) · curiosity (1) · wonder (1)

The Diary of Samuel Pepys primary

Samuel Pepys · 1659-01-01 to 1669 (diary entries)
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At a coffee-house Pepys hears East country merchants’ accounts of winter fish markets near “Quinsborough,” including fish frozen on sledges yet reanimating, and further tales of honey from fir-trees and hunting practices.

come to the Duke's house again; and of a rare play to be acted this week of Sir William Davenant's. The story of Henry the Eighth with all his wives. 11th. At the Coffee-house I went and sat by Mr. Harrington, and some East country merchants, and talking of the country above Quinsborough, [Perhaps Mr. Harrington invented the name of this place, and the account of the country.] and thereabouts, he told us himself t…