1. Like Samuel Pepys before him, he writes it in code.

2. Samuel Pepys, the famous 17th century diarist.

3. Because I understand Samuel Pepys would be - and indeed, all of the people that lived with him at that time - would be kind of sewn into their underclothes for the winter.

4. We find in the diaries of Samuel Pepys the account of a storm which made him worry that it might mean the death of the queen.

5. Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary that the ape, " ... is so much like a man in most things, I do believe it understands English and I am of the mind that it might be taught to speak and make signs.

6. The earliest dated domestic examples were made of oak in 1666 for the diarist Samuel Pepys.

7. He does appear, however, in the chronicles of the celebrated English diarist , Samuel Pepys.

8. By dawn on Sunday these houses were burning, and Samuel Pepys, observing the conflagration from the Tower of London, recorded great concern for friends living on the bridge.

9. Britain's first recipient was Arthur Coga, a Cambridge-educated eccentric who was "cracked a little in his head", as diarist Samuel Pepys put it.