With Pepys death, the kingdom and strong central government virtually collapsed,
and Egypt entered a turbulent phase known as the First Intermediate Period.
The first known record of the English Punch and
Judy appears in the journal of Samuel Pepys, who saw the show on May 9,
1662 in Covent Garden, London.
A further example of church building in the Romanesque revival style took place in 1792 when
Elisa Wingfield commissioned plans from Samuel Pepys Cockerell for the conservation and rebuilding of St Peter's Church,
Tickencote in Rutland.