This chamber, he states, "is inclosed with three doors, the inner cancellated, the middle, which is very thick, lined with skins like parchment, and driven full of nails.["]
1661 April 20 (date written; Gregorian calendar), Samuel Pepys, Mynors Bright, transcriber, “April 10th, 1661”, in Henry B[enjamin] Wheatley, editor, The Diary of Samuel Pepys […], volume II, London: George Bell & Sons […]; Cambridge: Deighton Bell & Co., published 1893, footnote 3, page 6