The Diary by Samuel Pepys (children's ebooks online TXT) π
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Pepysβ 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 Pepysβ 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 βa few passages which cannot possibly be printed.β The rich collection of endnotes serve to further illustrate the lives of the people Pepys meets and the state of Englandβs internal politics and international relations at the time.
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See January 17th, 1668. β©
The first part of the entry for April 20th is among the rough notes, and stands as follows: βMonday 20. Up and busy about answer to Committee of Accounts this morning about several questions which vexed me though in none I have reason to be troubled. But the business of The Flying Greyhound begins to find me some care, though in that I am wholly void of blame.β This may be compared with the text. β©
Sir William Hooker, grocer. Sheriff of London in 1665, afterwards knighted, and Lord Mayor in 1674. His daughter was Anne, who married Sir John Lethieulier, of Sutton Place, Kent, Sheriff of London in 1674. ββ B. β©
From sitting as a member pending the impeachment. ββ B. β©
At Romney, which Henry Brouncker represented. ββ B. β©
Sir Charles Berkeley, jun. was chosen in his room. In the sea-fight off Southwold Bay on June 3rd, 1665, the English triumphed over the Dutch, but the very considerable victory was not followed up. During the night, while the Duke of York slept, Henry Brouncker, his groom of the bedchamber, ordered the lieutenant to shorten sail, by which means the progress of the whole fleet was retarded, the Duke of Yorkβs being the leading ship. The duke affirmed that he first heard of Brounckerβs unjustifiable action in July, and yet he kept the culprit in his service for nearly two years after the offence had come to his knowledge. After Brouncker had been dismissed from the dukeβs service, the House of Commons ejected him. The whole matter is one of the unsolved difficulties of history. See Listerβs Life of Clarendon, ii, 334, 335. β©
The famous Cock tavern (formerly the Cock and Bottle) in Fleet Street, opposite Middle Temple Gate, was pulled down to make room for the Law Courts branch of the Bank of England (erected 1888). Some of the old fittings were removed to No. 22 on the south side of the street, where the revived Cock was opened in 1888. β©
Nicholas Fouquet, Surintendant des Finances in France, had built at Vaux a house which surpassed in magnificence any palace belonging to Louis XIV, prior to the erection of Versailles, and caused much envy to all the Court, especially to Colbert. βOn voyait partout dans cette maison les armes at la devise de Fouquet; cβest un ecureuil, avec ces paroles, QuΓ² non ascendant? βOΓΉ ne monterai-je point?β Le Roi se les fit expliquer. Lβambition de cette devise ne servit pas Γ apaiser le monarque. Les courtisans remarquΓ¨rent que lβecureuil Γ©tait peint partout poursuivi par un couleuvre, qui Γ©tait les armes de Colbert!β Fouquet died at Pignerol in 1680, after nineteen yearsβ incarceration; and whilst Pepys was buying his books in London, Colbert had become prime minister in France, and Colbertβs brother ambassador in England. The viper had caught the squirrel! ββ B. β©
Probably Los Claros Varones, The Celebrated Men, of Fernando del Pulgar, historiographer to Isabella and Ferdinand. He was ambitious to be thought the Plutarch of his nation, whence the title of his book. However, the book meant by Pepys may be, Varones ilustres del Nuevo Mundo, descubridores, conquistadores, pacificadores de las Indias Occidentales, by Fernando Pizarro y Orellana; printed at Madrid in 1639. ββ B. β©
Balty St. Michel and his wife. β©
The Baron de Bergeick? ββ B. β©
Letitia Isabella, daughter of Sir John Smith, of Kent. Lord Robartesβs first wife was Lady Lucy, daughter of Robert Rich, second Earl of Warwick, the mother of Robert Robartes, here mentioned, who had married Sarah, daughter and heir of John Bodvile, of Bodvile Castle, in Caernarvonshire. He died, s. p., in 1681, while ambassador to Denmark, having assumed the title of Viscount Bodmin, upon his fathers elevation to the earldom of Radnor, in 1679. ββ B. See note 2152. β©
William Wintershall, or Wintersell, was one of the original actors under Killigrew, at Drury Lane, and played the king in The Humourous Lieutenant, at the opening of that theatre. He was also Sir Amorous in Ben Jonsonβs Silent Woman; Subtle in the Alchemist; the king in Henry the Fourth, etc. Downes (Roscius Anglicanus, p. 17) says, βMr. Wintersell was good in tragedy, as well as in comedy, especially in Cokes, in Bartholomew Fair, that the famous comedian, Nokes, came, in that part, far short of him.β He was an excellent instructor, and died in July, 1679. One of his best comic parts, to the last, was Master Slender, which John Dennis praises highly. β©
βApril 2. The Resolution, a new ship, is rigging at Harwich.β
βMay 6. The Resolution has sailed to Erith.β
Calendar of State Papers, 1667β ββ 68, pp. 324, 377β©
Was this Benjamin Vandeputt, draper, Sheriff of London in 1685?
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