On 4 July 1665, Pepys wrote "I observed a house shut up this day in the Pell Mell, where heretofore in Cromwell's time we young men used to keep our weekly clubs."
クロムウェルの時代から今まで、私たちのような若い男性が週ごとのクラブ活動に勤しんできたところだ」（英: "I observed a house shut up this day in the Pell Mell, where heretofore in Cromwell's time we young men used to keep our weekly clubs."）と述べている。