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Samuel Pepys, diarist, naval administrator, and M.P. for Castle Rising and Harwich (1633–1703)+ (1655)+ Élisabeth de Saint-Michel, born from an Anglo-French wedding, of Angevin gentry by her father (1640–1669) British Armorial Bindings: Pepys, Samuel (1633 -1703)". University of Toronto Libraries . Retrieved 31 July 2023. The red wax is a personal seal of Samuel Pepys, probably created by melting sealing wax and impressing it with his signet ring. It was another way of confirming his identity, reinforcing his signature. Pepys lived to a good age (70) for the period. He was born on 23 February 1633 and died on 26 May 1703 and it is likely that his handwriting worsened in the period before his death as he became more physically frail. Dined at home, and after dinner to Westminster Hall, where I met with Billing the quaker at Mrs. Michell’s shop, who is still of the former opinion he was of against the clergymen of all sorts, and a cunning fellow I find him to be. Home, and there I had news that Sir W. Pen is resolved to ride to Sir W. Batten’s country house to-morrow, and would have me go with him, so I sat up late, getting together my things to ride in, and was fain to cut an old pair of boots to make leathers for those I was to wear. Thomas Shelton, a stenographer of the 17 th century, devised one of the most popular shorthand systems of the day. It was Shelton’s tachygraphy or short writing system which Pepys used in his diary, along with his contemporaries Isaac Newton and Henry James, Master of Queens’ College Cambridge. Since Shelton’s shorthand was used in several Cambridge colleges and student clubs, Pepys may well have learnt the system whilst at Magdalene.

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Aside from day-to-day activities, Pepys also commented on the significant and turbulent events of his nation. England was in disarray when he began writing his diary. Oliver Cromwell had died just a few years before, creating a period of civil unrest and a large power vacuum to be filled. Pepys had been a strong supporter of Cromwell, but he converted to the Royalist cause upon the Protector's death. He was on the ship that returned Charles II to England to take up his throne and gave first-hand accounts of other significant events from the early years of the Restoration, such as the coronation of Charles II, the Great Plague, the Great Fire of London, and the Anglo–Dutch Wars. Rodger, N. A. M. (2004). The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649–1815. London. {{ cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ( link). Includes an extensive specialist annotated bibliography. US edition published in New York, 2005. Pepys was the fifth of 11 children, but child mortality was high and he was soon the oldest survivor. [10] He was baptised at St Bride's Church on 3 March 1633. [8] Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London; for a while, he was sent to live with nurse Goody Lawrence at Kingsland, just north of the city. [8] In about 1644, Pepys attended Huntingdon Grammar School before being educated at St Paul's School, London, c. 1646–1650. [8] He attended the execution of Charles I in 1649. [8] Elisabeth de St Michel, Pepys' wife. Stipple engraving by James Thomson, after a 1666 painting (now destroyed) by John Hayls. [11] Pepys’ final will was written many years after his diary ends, but he first made a will in 1660 and may have written many different versions in the time in between. In March 1660, he wrote , ‘ So into London by water, and in Fish Street my wife and I bought a bit of salmon for 8 d. [8 pence] and went to the Sun Tavern and ate it, where I did promise to give her all that I have in the world but my books, in case I should die at sea.’ He tore that will up during an argument with his wife in 1663.Samuel's diary tells us about ordinary things like going to the coffee house and what he ate for dinner. Early life [ edit ] Bookplate, c. 1680–1690, with arms of Samuel Pepys: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Sable, on a bend or between two nag's heads erased argent three fleurs-de-lis of the field (Pepys [3]); 2nd & 3rd: Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or (Talbot [4]). Samuel Pepys was descended from John Pepys who married Elizabeth Talbot, the heiress of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire. [5] The Pepys arms are borne by the Pepys family, Earls of Cottenham. [6]

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That being done, I went to Mr. Crew’s, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore (who would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to the Hercules Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King’s declaration in matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very well penned, I think to the satisfaction of most people. First, there was the Great Plague of 1665, an illness which killed thousands of people living in the capital city of London. Bryant, Arthur (1933). Samuel Pepys (I: The man in the making. II: The years of peril. III: The saviour of the navy) (Revised 1948. Reprinted 1934, 1961, etc.ed.). Cambridge: University Press. LCC DA447.P4B8.And so I betake myself to that course, which [is] almost as much as to see myself go into my grave - for which, and all the discomforts that will accompany my being blind, the good God prepare me! Item 5: Print: Engraving of John Evelyn Intimate descriptions of Elizabeth Pepys’s ‘terms’, or periods, are recorded several times in the diary. The modern reader, however, would only discover these if they are reading the definitive, unexpurgated edition of the diary by Robert Latham and William Matthews completed in the 1970s. In earlier editions, such descriptions were deemed unsuitable and omitted – as were several other aspects of Pepys’s life such as his extra-marital encounters. Item 2: Book: A tutor to tachygraphy, by Thomas Shelton Because he didn't want anybody else to read it, he kept it safe and wrote some parts in a special code!

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