THE LONDON GAZETTE, England, July 1, 1680  The top of the back page has a report from Westminster noting: "...This being the last day of the sixth tern since the commitment of Sir Anthony Dead, and Mr. Pepys to the Tower, and no evidence for an indictment having been offered in all this time against them, notwithstanding their repeated demand of trial...appearing to any charge that should be brought against them, they were this day discharged."
This is the famed Samuel Pepys, perhaps most renowned for his diary, which provided a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
 The pair were under attack from their political enemies. Pepys resigned as Secretary of the Admiralty. They were imprisoned in the Tower of London on suspicion of treasonable correspondence with France, specifically leaking naval intelligence. The charges are believed to have been fabricated. Pepys and Deane were released in July, but proceedings against them were not dropped until June 1680, which is reported in this issue.
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