In article ,
Tim writes:
Of course, they were still using the Julian calendar then, so Pepys'
28th August would have corresponded to about the 7th September.

Bother, I was a day out posting on the 8th ;-)



The discrepancy had reached 11 days by 1752, so I was guessing that it
would have been about 10 days in 1663.
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