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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It appears that Robert Wayth kept his office of Navy Paymaster, and that Mr. Hutcheson or Hutchinson was appointed paymaster also. β©
There is a note in the margin respecting the passage between brackets: βAll this belongs to tomorrow in the afternoon.β β©
Robert Shafto, knighted June 26th, 1670, and made serjeant-at-law in 1674. He died May 21st, 1705, aged seventy-two, and was buried in St. Nicholasβs Church, Newcastle. He married Katharine, daughter and co-heir of Sir Thomas Widrington, of the Grange, Yorkshire. β©
See March 30th, 1668. It was he who, in 1673, petitioned against Pepysβs return for Castle Rising. See Life, in vol. i, p. xxxi. β©
The inhabitants of Newcastle. β©
Apparently this is Martin Clifford, Master of the Charterhouse in 1671. Little good is recorded of him, and he appears to have obtained his mastership through the influence of the Duke of Buckingham. He assisted that nobleman in the preparation of the Rehearsal, and his assistance is alluded to in the Session of Poets:
βIntelligence was brought, the Court being set,
That a Play Tripartite was very near made;
Where malicious Matt Clifford and spiritual Spratt
Were joined with their Duke, a Peer of the Trade.β
(See Dict. of Nat. Biog.) β©
Whetstone Park is a narrow roadway between the north side of Lincolnβs Inn Fields and the south side of Holborn, named after WiUiam Whetstone, a tobacconist and overseer of the parish of St. Giles-in-the-Fields in the time of Charles I and the Commonwealth. β©
A romance by Gauthier de Costes, Seigneur de la Calprenede. It was translated into English by Sir Charles Cotterell, whose translation passed through several editions. β©
I.e., precedence. β©
See January 9th, 1664β ββ 65. β©
Among the State Papers, 1668, is a petition from Peter Massonnet to Lord Arlington:
βIs the saddest object of pity of all the kingβs servants. Has attended 32 years as French sub-tutor and writing-master, served him in adversity as Clerk of the Patents and Foreign Secretary, but at the Restoration had only his sub-tutorβs salary continued, now Β£833 in arrear, so that he is ready to perish; will resign his patent for the arrears and some recompense.β
Calendar of State Papers, 1668β ββ 69, p. 129β©
Laud. See September 16th, 1668. β©
Lord Keeper, Sir Orlando Bridgman. β©
Stow speaks of βthe Conduit of Holborn Cross, erected about 1498: again new made by Mr. William Lamb, 1557. Hence called Lambβs Conduit.β ββ B. β©
Pepysβs cousin by marriage, Thomas Stradwick. See September 13th, 1660. Bunyan died in 1688, at the house of his friend, Mr. Stradwick, a grocer, at the sign of the Star, on Snow Hill. β©
Dated, Whitehall, November 25th, 1668. See a copy of it in Harl. MS. 6003. β©
Sir William Pennβs address to the Duke of York in reply to the Duke of Yorkβs letter is printed in Pennβs Memorials of Sir W. Penn, vol. ii, p. 514. In this his absences from the office are accounted for or explained by reason of his ill-health. β©
Sir William Warren had several contracts with the Navy Commissioners for timber. In December, 1668, he had a contract for elm timber. β©
Though our journalist prided himself not a little upon becoming possessed of a carriage, the acquisition was regarded with envy and jealousy by his enemies, as will appear by the following extract from the scurrilous pamphlet, A Hue and Cry after P. and H. and Plain Truth (or a Private Discourse between P. and H.), in which Pepys and Hewer are severely handled: βThere is one thing more you must be mightily sorry for with all speed. Your presumption in your coach, in which you daily ride, as if you had been son and heir to the great Emperor Neptune, or as if you had been infallibly to have succeeded him in his government of the Ocean, all which was presumption in the highest degree. First, you had upon the fore part of your chariot, tempestuous waves and wrecks of ships; on your left hand, forts and great guns, and ships a-fighting; on your right hand was a fair harbour and galleys riding, with their flags and pennants spread, kindly saluting each other, just like P[epys] and H[ewer]. Behind it were high curled waves and ships a-sinking, and here and there an appearance of some bits of land.β β©
John Lanyon, agent of the Navy Commissioners at Plymouth. The cause of complaint appears to have been connected with his contract for Tangier. In 1668 a charge was made against Lanyon and Thomas Yeabsley that they had defrauded the king in the freighting of the ship Tiger (Calendar of State Papers, 1668β ββ 69, p. 138).
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