Ques & Ans: People began to be alarmed. Samuel Pepys, who had an important position at the Admiralty, stayed in London and provided a contemporary account of the plague through his diary. On 30 April he wrote: "Great fears of the sickness here in the City it being said that two or three houses are already shut up. God preserve us all!" Another source of information on the time is a fictional account, A Journal of the Plague Year, which was written by Daniel Defoe and published in 1722. He had been only six when the plague struck but made use of his family's recollections (his uncle was a saddler in East London and his father a butcher in Cripplegate), interviews with survivors and sight of such official records as were available.

Whose diary describes the great plague of london?
Samuel Pepys

Stream of consciousness: The relevant information to answer the above question is: Samuel Pepys, who had an important position at the Admiralty, stayed in London and provided a contemporary account of the plague through his diary.

Ques & Ans: Passage: It is the name of a noble Anglo-Norman family that originated in district of the Forest of Lyons, north of the town of Lyons-la-Foret in Haute Normandie, where the family seat was the Castle of Lyons. The original surname was' de Lyons' (' of (the Forest and Castle) of Lyons' ): subsequently, the' de' was removed from the name, and some branches removed the' s' from the end of the word, producing' Lyon'. The English progenitors of this family were Ingelram de Lyons, Lord of Lyons, who arrived in England with the Norman Conquest, and his relation, Nicholas de Lyons, who emigrated from Normandy to England in 1080 and was granted lands at Warkworth, Northamptonshire by William of Normandy. Descendants of this family emigrated to Scotland, during the 14th-century, to Ireland, during the 15th-century, to Antigua, during the 16th-century, and to New York, during the 17th century.

Question: Based on this passage, where does the last name lyons originate from?
a noble Anglo - Norman family that originated in district of the Forest of Lyons , north of the town of Lyons - la - Foret in Haute Normandie , where the family seat was the Castle of Lyons

Stream of consciousness: To answer the above question, the relevant sentence is: It is the name of a noble Anglo-Norman family that originated in district of the Forest of Lyons, north of the town of Lyons-la-Foret in Haute Normandie, where the family seat was the Castle of Lyons.

Ques & Ans: The current Secretary of State is former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the 69th person to hold office since its creation in 1789.

Based on this passage, who is the current secretary of state in the united states?
former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson

Stream of consciousness:
To answer this question, we should know that: The current Secretary of State is former ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson, the 69th person to hold office since its creation in 1789.