Thomas Greeting (

fl. ''Floruit'' ( ; usually abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for 'flourished') denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indic ...

1675) was an English musician. Greeting published in 1675 ''The Pleasant Companion, or new Lessons and Instructions for the Flagelet''.

Pepys Samuel Pepys ( ; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English writer and Tory politician. He served as an official in the Navy Board and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though ...

engaged him to teach his wife an 'art that would be easy and pleasant for her' (1 March 1666 – 1667); in the following year Greeting sent the

Duke of Buckingham Duke of Buckingham, referring to the market town of Buckingham, England, is an extinct title that has been created several times in the peerages of England, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom. There were creations of double dukedoms of Bucki ...

's musicians to Pepys's house to play dance music.

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