, >f^'-^ ^1.^ .' f^]'-L''>'f* :> <^§. ».**:^]r''«5w^^ *T.^ ^:,$^4L::;-l4- .1^' •*.' Q A THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS, M.A., F.R.S. PEPYSIANA . C) am a el jitcfvyj. fivm the [laintinij ai the ^-^^iniraltu '-Whitehall THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS M.A. F.RS. EDITED BY HENRY B. WHEATLEY F.S.A. SUPPLEMENTARY VOLUME PEPYSIANA OR ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE PARTICULARS OF PEPYS'S LIFE AND ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE DIARY WITH APPENDIXES LONDON GEORGE BELL & SONS YORK ST. COVENT GARDEN CAMBRIDGE DEIGHTON BELL & CO. 1899 CHISWICK PRESS : —CHARLES WHITTINGHAM AND CO. TOOKS COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LONDON. 447 P4A4- y.io PREFACE. THIS volume of Pepysiana, as its title implies, consists of odds and ends of information, but I hope it will not be thought that it needs excuse on this account. Much more might have been written upon most of the subjects dealt with, but I have tried to bear in mind the rule which I set myself at the outset, that nothing should be inserted which did not illustrate directly either the life or the work of Samuel Pepys. This is not so easy a rule to follow as it might seem at first sight, for in carrying it out interesting particulars occasionally have had to be rejected. I hope that the notes here collected will be found to throw some light upon a few previously un- solved difficulties. In dealing with a wide field of inquiry such as the present, it is impossible to do much without the unstinted help of friends. It is a great pleasure, therefore, to find how kind these friends are in helping with information at the cost of much trouble to themselves. I have mentioned in the body of this volume all those who cordially assisted, but I must here particularly thank a special few. My sincere thanks are due to Mrs. Will'am Cockerell, Mrs. Frederick Pepys Cockerell, Miss Cockerell, Lady Alice Archer Houblon, and the Countess of Jersey ; to the Master of Magdalene College, Cambridge, Sir Ernest Clarke, Mr. Frank Cundall, Mr. Lionel Firth, Mr. Danby Cust, the Rev. J. W. Ebsworth, Mr. C. H. Hill, Mr. A. P. Fry, Dr. J. W. Glaisher, ER.S., Mr. Arthur J. Hipkins, Mr. Charles Henry Hull, Professor J. K. Laughton, Walter Mr. W. A. Lindsay, Q.C., Mr. J. E. Matthew, the Hon. Courtenay Pepys, Mr. Arthur G. Peskett, Mr. D'Arcy Power, Vlll PREFACE. Mr. F. G. Hilton Price, Sir Horace Rumbold, Bart, G.C.M.G., and Mr. W. Barclay Squire. I have now for so long a period been employed upon the editing of the Diary (a period which I fear some of my friends think might well have been curtailed), that I send off to the press the last pages of this volume with a feeling of some regret. I have hopes, however, that I may still have other occasions to place my name on the same title-page with that of Samuel Pepys, If this volume should prove of interest to the public I may perhaps be able to add to our knowledge of Pepys's distinguished career by the publication of the Tangier Diary and some volumes of correspondence, most of which has not been published. It is to me a matter of some personal interest to find that the names of Pepys and Wheatley are not now for the first time associated, and I hope I may be excused for alluding here to an early association of the names. One day Sir Wollaston Franks, the late highly-esteemed and respected President of the Society of Antiquaries, said to me, " I was interested lately by seeing in a Norfolk church a monument of the sixteenth century bearing the arms of Pepys impaled with those of Wheatley." My friend Mr. Mill Stephenson, F.S.A. (who was with Sir Wollaston Franks on the occasion) tells me that the church was that of South Creake, Norfolk, and the monument was in memory of Clemence, daughter of Pepys,* of Creake, and wife of William Wheatley, who died in 1565. Readers of the Diary will remember that in the following century there was a chance of another marriage between a Pepys and a Wheatley, when the daughter of Mrs. Wheatley was proposed as a wife for Thomas Pepys, the diarist's brother (ii. 86, iii. 19). H. B. W. Brampton, 2, Oppidans Road, N.W. March, 1899. CONTENTS. CHAPTER I'AGE I. Introduction I II. The Pepys Family 3 III. Personal Notes 32 IV. The Diary ^i V. Friends and Acquaintances 99 VI. The Navy 150 VII. London and Local Allusions 189 VIII. Folk-Lore and Manners 220 IX. Appreciation of the Man 239 Appendix I. The Will of Samuel Pepys .... 251 II. On the Cipher of Pepys's "Diary" 270 III. S. Pepys's Account of Mr. Meheux's singular Memory 280 IV. The Dutch Fleet V. The Prince of Orange's Order to Lord Dart- mouth 2«l VI. Lord Sandwich's Patent 282 VII. The Disposition of the severall Places at- tending THE FUNERALL of THE EaRLL OF Sandwich, and the Persons designed THERETO 285 VIII. William Hewer's Monument .... 287 IX. Extracts from the Correspondence of the Comte de Comminges, the French Ambas- sador at Whitehall, with Louis XIV., and the Marquis de Lionne, Secretary OF State for Foreign Affairs at Paris . Index 305 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE Samuel Pepys, from the Portrait at the Admiralty Frontispiece Invitation Card of the Mercers' Company, showing St. Paul's School as rebuilt after the Fire of London to face 32 Exterior of the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge to face 34 Interior of the Pepysian Library .... to face 36 BOOK-PLATES OF SAMUEL PEPYS: Small Portrait Plate to face 64 (The large Portrait Plate forms the frontispiece to the Index Volume.) Anchor Plate 64 Heraldic Plate, with Inscription 65 Heraldic Plate, with blank Shield .... 66 Heraldic Plate, the same completed .... 67 The Six Volumes of the MS. Diary . to face 74 First Page of the MS. Diary to face 76 Thomas Shelton's "Tachygraphv" 273-> Map of London in the Time of Pepys . at end of vobane PEDIGREES. A. Corrected Pepys Pedigree recently recorded in the College of Arms to face 4 B. Pepys and his Kindred to face 8 C. Descendants of Paulina Pepys .... toface \-> PEPYSIANA: OR ADDITIONAL NOTES ON THE PARTICULARS OF PEPYS'S LIFE AND ON SOME PASSAGES IN THE DIARY. CHAPTER L INTRODUCTION. DURING the years that the eight volumes of the Diary have been passing through the press various notes respecting the author and his work have accumulated. Some of these are corrections of statements in the notes, while still more consist of fresh material in illustration of the text. Of the latter class special mention must be made of the new facts which Mr. Lindsay has discovered respecting the diarist's ancestry, and the will of Samuel Pepys, which is now published for the first time. The question has arisen how to deal with these miscellaneous notes to the best advantage. If they had been arranged in chronological order they might have been useful for ready reference, but they would have presented a somewhat motley appearance. It seemed, therefore, better to throw them into some order which would make them form a sort of companion to the Diary and a help to the better understanding of its contents. The order adopted is as follows : The second chapter contains pedigrees and notes as to Samuel's relations and to Mrs. Pepys's family, and some information respecting their constantly changing servants. The third chapter is X. B 2 PEPYSIANA. devoted to some personal notes of Samuel at school and college and in business, and an account of his bookplates, portraits, etc. In the fourth chapter various points relating to the Diary are dealt with, and additional illustrations of some of the words used by Pepys are added. The fifth chapter con- tains notes on friends and acquaintances. The sixth chapter is devoted to the Navy ; the seventh to London and local allusions ; the eighth to folk-lore, and the ninth contains an appreciation of the man. Nine appendixes complete the volume. It must not, however, be supposed, because some attempt at classification has been attempted, that the various subjects dealt with in the different chapters are at all exhaustively treated. This, of course, was impossible without making a very big book, and I fear that it may be thought by some that too many odds and ends have been included. I hope, however, that although the pages may appear somewhat dis- connected, it will be found that much which will help us to better understand the book, the author, and the times has been brought together. CHAPTER II. the pepvs family!. Pedigrees. page XV of the first volume of the Diary it is stated that ONSamuel Pepys's grandfather was Thomas the Red. This has been since found to be incorrect, and the correction was made in the re-issue of the volume in 1 897. The discovery of this fact was made by Mr. W. A. Lindsay, Q.C., Windsor Herald, who found that a pedigree, dated 1684, in the College of Arms, in which the two brothers, Thomas the Black and Thomas the Red, are both said to have died unmarried, is untrustworthy, as both these brothers were married and had children. This induced him to investigate the matter more fully, with the result that he traced the correct particulars, which he has been so good as to allow me to print, and he has added to the obligation by preparing an interesting statement of the facts of the case, which is here presented to the reader.