W. PINKERTON.

Ham.

_Pepys's "Morena"_ (Vol. vii., p. 118.).--MR. WARDEN may like to be

informed that his conjecture about the meaning of this word is fully

confirmed by the following passage in the _Diary_, 6th October, 1661, which

has hitherto unaccountably escaped observation:

"There was also my _pretty black girl_, Mrs. Dekins and Mrs. Margaret

Pen this day come to church."

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