Funny to think a couple of weeks back I was in front of a direct descendant of someone named here.
Samuel PepysThe talk this day is of the great foot-race run this day on Banstead Downes, between Lee, the Duke of Richmond’s footman, and a tyler, a famous runner. And Lee hath beat him; though the King and Duke of York and all men almost did bet three or four to one upon the tyler’s head.