When the Dutch navy sailed up the Thames estuary in 1667 and launched a surprise attack on British ships, the naval administrator and diarist Samuel Pepys panicked that “the whole kingdom is undone”. He sent his wife and father out of London with the gold pieces in which he kept his wealth to bury them in a garden.
1667年,當荷蘭海軍駛入泰晤士河口並對英國船隻發動突襲時,海軍行政官兼日記作者塞繆爾•佩皮斯(Samuel Pepys)感到恐慌,認爲「整個王國都完蛋了」。他讓他的妻子和父親帶著他用來儲存財富的金幣離開倫敦,把它們埋在一個花園裏。
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