The Diary by Samuel Pepys (children's ebooks online TXT) ๐
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Pepysโ Diary is an incredibly frank decade-long snapshot of the life of an up and coming naval administrator in mid-17th century London. In it he describes everything from battles against the Dutch and the intrigues of court, down to the plays he saw, his marital infidelities, and the quality of the meat provided for his supper. His observations have proved invaluable in establishing an accurate record of the daily life of the people of London of that period.
Pepys eventually stopped writing his diary due to progressively worse eyesight, a condition he feared. He did consider employing an amanuensis to transcribe future entries for him, but worried that the content he wanted written would be too personal. Luckily for Pepys, his eyesight difficulties never progressed to blindness and he was able to go on to become both a Member of Parliament and the President of the Royal Society.
After Pepysโ death he left his large library of books and manuscripts first to his nephew, which was then passed on to Magdalene College, Cambridge, where it survives to this day. The diary, originally written in a shorthand, was included in this trove and was eventually deciphered in the early 19th century, and published by Lord Baybrooke in 1825. This early release censored large amounts of the text, and it was only in the 1970s that an uncensored version was published. Presented here is the 1893 edition, which restores the majority of the originally censored content but omits โa few passages which cannot possibly be printed.โ The rich collection of endnotes serve to further illustrate the lives of the people Pepys meets and the state of Englandโs internal politics and international relations at the time.
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In the โBill against importing Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the Seas,โ the Lords proposed to insert โDetriment and Mischiefโ in place of โNuisance,โ but the Commons stood to their word, and gained their way. The Lords finally consented that โNuisanceโ should stand in the Bill. โฉ
Professor Samuel R. Gardiner has kindly enabled the editor to identify this book. A copy of Ephemeris Parliamentaria, or a faithful Register of the Transactions in Parliament in the third and fourth years of the reign of our late sovereign lord King Charles. London, Printed for John Williams and Francis Eglesfield, 1654, is in the British Museum, and in the catalogue it is said to be edited by Thomas Fuller. A MS. note on the inside of the cover says that it was republished in 1657 under the title of The Sovereignโs Prerogative and the Subjectโs Privilege. โฉ
โJan. 9. The Society meeting the first time in Arundel House, the president took notice again of the great favour, which Mr. Henry Howard of Norfolk had shown to the Society, not only in accommodating them with convenient room for their meetings, but also in presenting them with the library of the said house. The experiments appointed for the next meeting were (1) That of applying the strength of gunpowder to the bending of springs.โ
Birchโs History of the Royal Society, vol. ii, pp. 138, 139โฉ
The Prince Royal, which bore the flag of Sir George Ayscu, Admiral of the White, grounded on the Galloper.
โExamination of George Purvis, master, and four other officers named, touching the surrender of their ship, the Prince, to the Dutch, on June 3, 1666; tending to prove that she was steering in according to orders when she ran aground; that Tromp brought a fireboat on each side to compel her to surrender, but that the flag was struck without the knowledge of the captain, Sir G[eorge] A[yscu], though one witness affirmed that he consented to its being struck. Jan. 10, 1667โ
Calendar of State Papers, 1666โ โโ 67, p. 445โฉ
Presented by Mr. Gauden; see July 28th, 1664. โฉ
The work of Henry More the Platonist, entitled, An Antidote Against Atheisme, or an Appeal to the Natural Faculties of the Mind of Man, Whether There Be Not a God. London, 1653. Second edition, 1655. โฉ
Anthony Lowther did not marry Margaret Penn until February (see 15th). The marriage licence is dated February 12th. โฉ
See note 3163. โฉ
The Indian Emperor, or the Conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards, Dryden, intended as a sequel to The Indian Queen. It was entered at Stationersโ Hall on May 26th, 1665, but not published until 1667. โฉ
Captain Richard Kingdon (or Kingdom), Commissioner of Prizes and Governor of Excise. โฉ
Dr. Edward Stillingfleet, Prebendary of St. Paulโs, 1672; Dean of St. Paulโs, 1678; and Bishop of Worcester, 1689. He died March 27th, 1699. His biographer sets down Cranborne, in Dorsetshire, and Ringwood, in Hampshire, as the sites of his schools. โฉ
The preparatory school at Hertford was not founded until 1683. โฉ
On this day โAn Act for raising Money by a Poll and otherwise towards the maintenance of the present War,โ and โAn Act prohibiting the Importation of Cattle from Ireland and other parts beyond the Sea, and Fish taken by Foreigners,โ were passed. The king complained of the insufficient supply, and said, โโโTis high time for you to make good your promises, and โtis high time for you to be in the countryโ (Journals of the House of Lords, vol. xii, p. 81). โฉ
See October 10th, 1666. โฉ
See note 3130. โฉ
Sir James Barkman Leyenberg, many years the Swedish Resident in this country. He is the person mentioned in the note to November 18th, 1660, as having in 1671 married the widow of Sir W. Batten (see note 796). โโ B. โฉ
The ancient barony of De Ros, created by writ in 1264, was carried, with Belvoir Castle and other great possessions, into the family of Manners, by the marriage of Eleanor, sister and heir of Edmund, Lord de Ros (who died in 1508), to Sir Robert Manners. Katharine, only daughter and heir of Francis, sixth Earl of Rutland, married, first, George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham, and, secondly, Randal Macdonnal, Marquis of Antrim. On her death her son, the second Duke of Buckingham, became eighteenth Baron De Ros. He died without issue in 1687, and the barony remained in abeyance until the year 1806, when it was determined by the Crown in favour of Charlotte Boyle (Lady Henry Fitzgerald), who became third Baroness De Ros. The present Lord De Ros is the twenty-fourth baron. โฉ
Sir William Montagu, second son of Edward, first Baron Montagu of Boughton, born about 1619, Attorney-General to the Queen, 1662 to 1676, when he was appointed Lord Chief Baron of the Exchequer. Removed by James II in 1686, and died August 20th, 1706. The Duke of Buckinghamโs claim to the title of Lord Rosse was opposed by the Earl of Rutland. On January 31st โMr. Montagu made a long argument to maintain the claim of the Earl of Rutland, and Mr. Solicitor made an answer on behalf of the claim of the Duke of Bucksโ (Journals of the House of Lords, vol. xii, p. 97). โฉ
Sir Peter Ball was Queenโs Attorney-General in 1662. โฉ
Sir Heneage Finch, Solicitor-General, 1660โ โโ 70. โฉ
Sir William Scroggs, Kingโs Serjeant, 1669; Chief Justice of the Kingโs Bench, 1678โ โโ 81. He died October 25th, 1683. โฉ
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