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Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

Wheatley, Henry B. (Henry Benjamin), 1838-1917 · Project Gutenberg
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INDEX INDEX INDEX. The titles of Chapters are printed in italics. PAGE A dmiral , introduction of the word into English 129 Admiral (Lord High), the office first put in commission 136 Admiralty (The), relation of the office to the Navy Board 142 , 145 —— Secretaries of, list 268 Almanacs foretell the Fire of London 113 Albemarle (George Monk, Duke of) 31 , 183 Albemarle (Duchess of) 184 —— her disgust at the ways of the “gentlemen captains” 149 Aldborough, members of Parliament for 48 Amusements 217–231 Anglesey (Earl of) 190 Arlington (Earl of) laughed at by Miss Stewart 159 Ascension day, custom of beating the bounds on that day 213 “ Athenæum ” on the charm of the “ Diary ” 17 Audley End, visit of the queen and grand ladies to the fair at 161 Axe Yard, Pepys’s home there 24 Backwell (Alderman), the goldsmith 123 Bailey (J. E.), his paper on the Cipher of the “ Diary ” 13 Balaam (Dr.), his opinion of Tangier 75 Ballads, Pepys’s collection of 90 Barlow (Thomas), Pepys’s predecessor as Clerk of the Acts 23 Batten (Sir William) 157 Batten (Lady), married to Sir James B. Leyenburg 48 Bear at the Bridge foot 102 Beating the bounds 213 Bellasys (John, Lord), Governor of Tangier 69 Bellasys (Susan, Lady) 169 Bence (John), M.P. for Aldborough 48 Berkeley (Sir Charles), afterwards Earl of Falmouth 171 , 195 Betterton, Pepys’s admiration for 219 Binding of Pepys’s books 84 Birch (Colonel), his proposal for the rebuilding of London after the Fire 114 Blackburne (Robert), Secretary of the Admiralty 136 , 269 Bludworth (Sir Thomas), a poor creature 32 Bombay a more iniquitous place than Tangier 75 Booksellers employed by Pepys 93 Brampton, Pepys’s money buried there 34 —— parish registers 3 Braybrooke (Lord) as an editor 15 —— his censure on James II. 139 Breakfasts, Pepys’s 201 Bright’s ( Rev. Mynors) edition of the “ Diary ” 15 British dominion of the seas 154 Brook (Margaret), afterwards Lady Denham 177 Brooke (Sir Robert), M.P. for Aldborough 48 Brouncker (Lord) 158 Buckingham (Duke of) 180 —— his mimicry 160 —— his Duchess 161 Buckingham House in the Strand 115 Burton (Dr. Hezekiah) 79 Butler’s “ Hudibras ” in the Pepysian library 89 Cambridge, Pepys’s name on the boards of Trinity College 4 —— Pepys entered at Magdalene College 4 Cards, games at 229 Carriage-building, improvements in 211 Carteret (Sir George) 156 , 273 Carteret (Philip), his marriage with Lady Jemimah Montagu 209 Castle Rising, members of Parliament for 49 Castlemaine (Countess of) 168 , 172 , 173 —— Pepys’s admiration for her 41 Catalogues made by Pepys 82 , 92 Characters (Public) 183–198 Charles II. , his coronation 24 —— his own account of his escape after the Battle of Worcester 53 —— viciousness of his Court 159 —— his character 165–169 Chatham dockyard 151 —— Commissioners of the Navy resident at 284 Chaucer, Pepys’s appreciation of 86 Chest (The) at Chatham 152 —— removed to Greenwich 153 Chesterfield (Elizabeth, Countess of) 176 Chiffinch (Thomas) 181 Chiffinch (William) 181 Church, Pepys’s behaviour at 214 Clapham, Pepys moves there 59 Clarendon (Edward Hyde, Earl of) 187 —— displeased with Pepys 188 Clarendon Park, the timber at 188 Clarges (Ann), afterwards Duchess of Albemarle 184 Clerk of the Acts, an ancient office 129 —— list of holders of the office 279 Clothworkers’ Company, Pepys elected Master 51 Clothworkers’ Hall, burning of 112 Cocker (Edward), the writing master 30 , 87 Cockfighting, Pepys’s opinion of 94 , 228 “Cockpit,” plays acted there 223 Coleridge, quotations from 1 , 46 Cooper (Mr.), teaches Pepys mathematics 28 Costume, varieties of, after the Restoration 203 Cottenham, the Pepyses of 1 Cotton’s Scarronides appreciated by Pepys 90 Court (The) 159–182 Coventry (Mr., afterwards Sir William) 32 , 36 , 37 , 189 , 197 , 270 Coventry (Mr., afterwards Sir William) suggests that Pepys should write a history of the Dutch war 31 —— Pepys’s respect for him 156 Cox (Sir John) 151 , 285 Creed (John), Secretary to the Commissioners of Tangier 66 Crowland (Abbot of), his lands in Cambridgeshire 2 Cunningham (Peter), on the charm of the “ Diary ” 17 —— his story of Nell Gwyn referred to 160 , 172 Dancing at Court 230 Dartmouth (Lord) 54 , 55 , 80 —— sent out to destroy Tangier 72 Davenant’s (Sir William) company of actors 217 Davis (Moll) 179 Deane (Sir Anthony) 53 , 124 Denham (Lady) 177 Deptford dockyard 153 “ Diary ,” account of the 11 Dinners, Pepys’s opinion upon 200 Dockyards, the four 150 Domesday Book 44 Douglas (Captain), his bravery 150 Downing (Sir George) 188 —— Pepys’s connection with him 11 , 18 , 23 D’Oyly wants to borrow money from Pepys 53 Drinking, habits of deep 201 Dryden recommended by Pepys to modernize Chaucer 87 Dummer (Edmund), constructer of the first docks at Plymouth 81 , 153 , 278 Dutch in the Medway 149 Dutch war, Pepys proposes to write a history of the 31 “Ecclesiastes,” quotation from 232 Edisbury (Kenrick), the “old Edgeborrow” of the “ Diary ” 152 , 277 Evelyn (John) visits Pepys in the Tower 52 —— his defence of England’s right to the dominion of the sea 155 Evelyn’s (Mrs.) picture of the Duchess of Newcastle 194 Falmouth (Sir Charles Berkeley, Earl of) 171 , 195 Fane (Mrs.), Pepys’s housekeeper 59 Fashion, Charles II. ’s attempt to fix the 204 Field, Pepys’s lawsuit with 28 Fitzgerald (Col.), Deputy Governor of Tangier 69 Flag (English), rights of 155 Fox (Lady), Pepys’s anagrams upon her name when Mrs. Whittle 5 Gaming at Court 229 Gibson’s “Memoirs of the Navy” 148 “Gloucester” (The), wreck of 54 Gloves, use of perfumed 206 Grammont, Memoirs of 159 , 160 , 162 , 163 , 164 Greenwich, plague there 110 Grenville (Lord), his help in deciphering the “ Diary ” 12 Gwyn (Nell) 179 Hales’s portrait of Pepys 237 Hamilton (Miss) 162 , 163 , 169 Harbord (Sir Charles) suggested as paymaster for Tangier 69 Harbord (William), M.P. for Launceston 52 —— his opinion of the government of Tangier 70 Harrington (James) and his Rota Club 18 Harwich, Pepys elected M.P. for 57 —— is unpopular there when out of favour at Court 57 Hats worn indoors 205 Hayter (Thomas) appointed Clerk of the Acts 49 , 121 , 283 —— Secretary of the Admiralty 270 Henry VIII. , what he did for the Navy 130 Hewer (William) 121 —— Pepys lives with him 59 Hickes (Dr. George) attends Pepys’s death-bed 60 Hill-house (The), at Chatham 152 Hippocras, not wine, but a mixed drink 27 , 109 Hollar’s views of Tangier 70 Holmes (Sir Robert) 196 Houblons (The), friends of Pepys 58 , 59 , 72 , 73 , 123 Hours of going to bed 212 Howard (Lord) 49 Huntingdon, Pepys goes to school there 3 Hyde (Anne), wife of the Duke of York 170 Hyde (Mrs.) 162 Inns, abundance of, in London 201 Jackson (John), Pepys’s nephew 61 , 73 James II. , previously Duke of York 31 , 37 , 49 , 58 —— his relations with Pepys 22 , 138 —— his connection with the Countess of Chesterfield 176 —— —— with Lady Denham 177 —— —— with Frances Jennings 178 —— his character 169 —— his wife Anne 170 —— his conversion to Roman Catholicism 170 —— shipwreck of his ship “The Gloucester” 54 Jennings (Frances), afterwards Duchess of Tyrconnel 160 , 179 Johnson (Dr.), quotation from 116 Jones (Sir William), M.P., his opinion of the government of Tangier 70 Jonson (Ben), Pepys’s admiration of 219 Joyce (Anthony), his misfortunes and death 118 Joyce (Kate) 119 Joyce (William), an impertinent coxcomb 118 Katherine (Queen) 168 —— her marriage portion 64 Katherine of Valois, her body at Westminster Abbey 40 Killigrew’s company of actors 218 King Street, Westminster, full of inns 106 King’s College, Cambridge, Pepys suggested for Provost 53 Kingsmall (Sir Francis), grandfather of Mrs. Pepys 7 Kirke (Colonel), Deputy Governor of Tangier 68 , 69 , 72 , 73 Kite (Mrs.), and her daughter Peg 119 Kneller’s (Sir Godfrey), portrait of Dr. Wallis 60 —— portraits of Pepys 238 Knipp (Mrs.), the actress 220 Lawson (Sir John) 196 —— his opinion of Tangier 65 Leeds (Duke of) 191 , 273 Legge (Colonel), afterwards Lord Dartmouth 54 , 55 , 72 , 80 Lely’s (Sir Peter), portrait of Pepys 238 —— portraits of the beauties of the Court 162 Leybourne (W. de), the first English Admiral 129 Leyenburg (Sir James B.), Pepys’s quarrel with him 48 Lincoln’s Inn, theatres in 224 London 100–125 —— the Plague 109–112 —— the Fire 31 , 112–115 —— rebuilding of 114 —— prints of, collected by Pepys 92 London Bridge, danger of “shooting” it 101 Lorrain (Paul), a cataloguer employed by Pepys 84 Magdalene College, Cambridge, Pepys’s library there 77 Maitland MS. at Cambridge 81 Man (Mr.) offers to buy the place of Clerk of the Acts 24 Manners 199–216 Marshall (Stephen), not the father of Anne and Beck Marshall 220 Maryon (S.) 54 Marvell (Andrew), his attack on Pepys 53 —— “Instructions to a Painter,” quoted 178 —— “Ballad on the Lord Mayor and Aldermen,” quoted 159 Masks worn by ladies 205 Maulyverer (John) 79 May (Baptist) 182 Michell (Betty), Pepys’s admiration for her 42 Milles (Dr. Daniel), the minister of St. Olave’s 120 Mills ( Rev. Alexander) 57 Milton’s “Paradise Lost,” quotation from 63 —— works in the Pepysian Library 88 Mings (Sir Christopher), loved by his sailors 197 Minnes (Sir John) 156 , 276 —— teaches Pepys to love Chaucer 86 Moll (Orange), at the theatre 227 Money, value of, in Pepys’s day 212 Monk (George), afterwards Duke of Albemarle 31 , 183 Monson (Sir William), his Naval Tracts 128 , 134 Montagu (Sir Edward), afterwards Earl of Sandwich, 9 , 10 , 20 , 24 , 29 , 49 , 65 , 154 , 185 —— first chose Portsmouth for his title when offered an earldom 154 Montague (Lady Jemimah), her marriage with Philip Carteret 209 Moorfields full of people after the Fire 33 —— the fights there 105 —— its state after the Fire 112 Moors turned out of Tangier 64 —— take possession of the place again 74 Morelli (Cesare) 121 Mourning, use of 208 Muffs, use of, by men 207 Muly Ismael, Emperor of Morocco 74 Musical instruments referred to in the “ Diary ” 97 , 98 , 252–253 “Naseby,” Pepys in the 10 , 21 —— its name is changed to “Charles” 22 Navy (The) 128–158 —— lists of the officers of the 266 Navy Board, origin of 130 —— composition in the reign of Elizabeth 131 —— instructions 132 —— salaries of the officers 135 —— Commissioners during the Commonwealth 136 —— re-arrangement of the Board at the Restoration 137 —— their want of money 146 Navy Office in Crutched Friars 144 —— attempts to save it from being burnt 32 Nero (Tragedy of), quotation from 217 Newcastle (Margaret, Duchess of) 193 Newgate Street, the butchers there 104 Nonconformists, Pepys’s opinion of the 214 Northumberland (Algernon, Earl of) 23 ( note ) Norwood (Colonel), Deputy Governor of Tangier 67 , 69 O’Brien (Donald), his father’s will 192 Offley petitions against Pepys’s election as M.P. for Castle Rising 50 Oranges, price of 227 Osborne (Sir Thomas), afterwards Duke of Leeds 191 , 273 Ossory (Earl of), appointed Governor of Tangier 71 Page (Sir Thomas), Provost of King’s College, Cambridge 53 Pasley (Colonel), his assistance to the author 129 , 140 ( note ) —— his lists of the Officers of the Navy 266 Paston (Sir Robert), afterwards Viscount Yarmouth 49 Peachell (Dr.), Master of Magdalene College 79 Penn (Sir William) 25 , 32 , 157 —— his house at the Navy Office 145 Pepys (Mrs. Elizabeth), her marriage to Samuel Pepys 6 , 9 —— squabbles with her husband 42 , 44 —— her death 47 —— her religion 51 Pepys (John), Samuel’s brother 49 —— joint Clerk of the Acts with Thomas Hayter 143 , 283 Pepys (John), Samuel’s father 3 , 9 —— his will 117 Pepys (Margaret), Samuel’s mother 3 Pepys (Paulina), Samuel’s sister, he gives her a marriage portion 44 Pepys (Richard), Lord Chief Justice of Ireland 2 Pepys (Robert), Samuel’s uncle, his death 25 Pepys (Samuel), “ Pepys before the Diary ” 1–15 —— “ Pepys in the Diary ” 16–45 —— “ Pepys after the Diary ” 46–62 —— antiquity of his family 1 —— his birth, Feb. 23 , 1632–3, and parentage 3 —— his education 3–5 —— a Roundhead as a boy 4 —— admonished for being drunk 5 —— his romance, “Love a Cheate” 5 —— made Master of Acts by proxy 6 —— his marriage to Elizabeth St. Michel 6 , 9 —— operation for the stone 10 —— accompanies Sir Edward Montagu to the Sound 10 —— Clerk of the Exchequer 11 —— uses Shelton’s system of shorthand in writing his “ Diary ” 13 —— how he wrote his “ Diary ” 14 —— tells Sir W. Coventry how he kept a diary 16 —— living in Axe-yard 18 —— a member of the Rota Club 19 —— accepts the post of Secretary to the Generals at Sea 20 Pepys (Samuel) is pleased at being addressed as “ Esq. ” 21 —— goes on board the “Naseby” 21 —— is made Clerk of the Acts 22 —— his relation to the Instructions for the Navy Office 138 —— takes possession of his house at the Navy Office 144 —— his feelings on Barlow’s death, by which he gained £ 100 a year 23 —— takes the oaths as a Clerk of the Privy Seal 24 —— is sworn a justice of the peace 24 —— goes to Brampton to see after the property left by his uncle 26 —— his vows 26 —— thinks it wise to spend while he can enjoy life 27 —— proposes to write on the British dominion of the seas 154 —— sworn a younger brother of the Trinity House 28 —— is made a burgess of Portsmouth 28 —— is appointed a Commissioner for Tangier 28 —— learns mathematics and dancing 28 , 230 —— remonstrates with the Earl of Sandwich on his conduct 29 —— his eyesight begins to fail 30 —— —— gets worse 37 —— thinks of writing a history of the Dutch war 31 —— is appointed an assistant of the Corporation of the Royal Fishery 31 —— Treasurer of Tangier 31 , 66 , 69 —— Surveyor-General of the Victualling Office 31 —— his connection with the Victualling Department of the Navy 147 —— is useful during the period of the Plague and the Fire of London 31 —— sets up a carriage 33 —— buries his money at Brampton 34 —— his letter on the state of the office 139–142 —— his criticism on himself in the letter 141 —— his letter to the Commissioners of Accounts 147 —— his great speech at the bar of the House of Commons 34 —— ends the “ Diary ” 38 —— his tour through France and Holland 47 —— his wife dies 47 —— is a candidate at Aldborough for election as a Member of Parliament 48 —— he quarrels with Sir J. B. Leyenburg 48 —— is appointed Secretary of the Admiralty 48 —— is one of the mourners at Lord Sandwich’s funeral 49 —— is elected Member for Castle Rising 50 —— charges of Popery made against him 50 —— Commissioner for Tangier 70 —— elected Master of the Clothworkers’ Company 51 —— is committed to the Tower 52 —— is elected Member for Harwich 53 —— takes down from Charles II. ’s dictation the account of the King’s escape after the battle of Worcester 53 —— is suggested as a candidate for the provostship of King’s College 54 —— accompanies the Duke of York to Scotland, and is nearly shipwrecked on the way 54 —— goes on an expedition to Tangier 55 , 72 —— his Tangier Journal 56 , 72 —— reappointed Secretary of the Admiralty 56 —— elected President of the Royal Society 56 —— takes part in James II. ’s coronation 56 —— elected for Harwich and Sandwich 57 —— close of his public career at the Revolution 57 —— committed to the Gate House at Westminster 58 —— publishes his “Memoirs of the Navy” 58 —— parts with his housekeeper, Mrs. Fane 59 —— settles at Clapham 59 , 115 —— has a portrait of Dr. Wallis painted for Oxford by Kneller 60 —— his death 60 —— post-mortem examination 61 —— his frequent journeys on the river 101 —— a lover of good living 200 —— his love of dress 29 , 203 —— his money-grubbing 39 —— admiration for women 40 —— his unfaithfulness to his wife 43 —— his credulity 44 —— is both mean and generous 44 —— want of the imaginative faculty 45 —— account of his portraits and bust 237–240 —— his different wills 40 —— mourning rings given to his friends 62 —— his motto 94 —— his songs 95 —— his books and collections 77–99 —— his manuscripts at Oxford 251 —— his relations, friends, and acquaintances 116–127 —— his correspondents 254 Peterborough (Henry, 2nd Earl of), first English governor of Tangier 66 , 68 Pett’s (Commissioner Peter) house at Chatham 151 —— his threatened impeachment 151 , 285 Pett (Phineas), Commissioner of the Navy 284 Pett (Sir Phineas), Commissioner of the Navy 286–287 Petty (Sir William) 22 Plays which Pepys saw acted 218 , 289 Portsmouth dockyard 153 Portuguese delivery of Tangier to England 64 Posts, announcement of plays placed on 228 Povy (Thomas), Treasurer for Tangier 49 , 66 Pressing for the Navy 148 Progers (Edward) 181 Prynne’s remarks on Abp. Laud, quotation from 16 —— his rusty sword in the way 20 Punishments in Pepys’s day 215 Purser’s accounts 147 Quadring (Dr.), Master of Magdalene 80 Rawlinson MSS. at Oxford 82 Rich’s shorthand not used by Pepys 13 Richmond (Duke of) 175 Richmond (Duchess of) 160 , 161 , 174 —— Pepys’s admiration for her 41 Rings (mourning), given at Pepys’s death 62 Roger or Rogiers (Thomas), Clerk of the King’s Ships 129 , 279 Romney (Earl of), his intrigue with the Duchess of York 171 Rota Club 18 “Roxana” and “Roxalana” confused together 221 Royal Society, Charles II. ’s connection with it 167 —— Petty’s suggestion for the Anniversary Meeting 123 —— Pepys elected President 56 —— visit of the Duchess of Newcastle to 194 Rupert (Prince) 186 —— his boat the “Fanfan” 150 Russian Ambassador, his entry into London 104 Rutherford (Andrew, Lord), Governor of Dunkirk and afterwards of Tangier 68 Ryder (Sir W.), his house at Bethnal Green full of valuables after the Fire 33 Sailors (English) on board Dutch ships 148 St. Michel (Alexander Marchant, Sieur de ), father of Mrs. Pepys, his schemes 6–8 , 241–250 St. Michel (Balthasar), letter to Pepys, giving an account of his family 6 , 51 St. Michel (Elizabeth), afterwards Mrs. Pepys 6 , 9 , 42 , 44 , 47 , 51 St. Paul’s School, Pepys educated there 4 Sandwich, Pepys elected M.P. for 57 Sandwich (Earl of) 9 , 10 , 20 , 24 , 154 , 185 —— takes possession of Tangier 65 —— his stay at Chelsea 29 —— his funeral 49 Savill’s portrait of Pepys 237 Scotch, Pepys antipathy to the 55 Scott (Colonel John), his charge against Pepys 52 Seething Lane, Pepys’s house there 24 Selden’s “Mare Clausum” 155 Seymour (Sir Edward), Pepys applies to him for his interest 58 Shadwell’s (T.), “Epsom Wells,” quotation from 100 —— “The Woman Captain,” quotation from 199 Shaftesbury (Earl of), his shrewdness 171 —— his frivolous charge against Pepys [411] 50 Shakespeare’s “Winter’s Tale,” quotation from 77 —— acting of his plays after the Restoration 218 —— edition of his plays in the Pepysian Library 88 Shelton’s Tachygraphy 13 Sheres (Sir Henry), employed at Tangier 69 , 73 —— his friendship for Pepys 125 Shorthand, Pepys a lover of 14 —— Pepys’s collection of books on 92 Shovel (Sir Cloudesley), his answer to Muly Ismael 74 Skinner (Daniel), papers of Milton possessed by him 89 Smith (Sir Jeremy) 197 Smith (John), the decipherer of the “ Diary ” 12 —— “Life, Journals, &c. , of Pepys,” alluded to 56 passim Stewart (Frances), afterwards Duchess of Richmond 41 , 160 , 161 , 174 Stockings, green silk, fashionable 177 Symons (William), his political misfortunes 18 Sympson (Mr.), the maker of Pepys’s bookcases 83 Tangier 62–76 —— Lord Dartmouth’s expedition to 55 —— the mole built 67 —— —— destroyed 73 Tarpaulins v. “Gentlemen captains” 148 Taverns frequented by Pepys 105–108 Tennis, Charles II. a proficient at 229 Teviot (Earl of), Governor of Dunkirk and afterwards of Tangier 68 Thames (River), as a highway 100 Theatres after the Restoration 217 Tickets given to the sailors in place of money 147 “Tom Otter,” Charles II. calls the Duke of York by this name 172 Travelling on horseback and by coach 211 Turner (Mr.), of the Navy Office, wishes to be made Clerk of the Acts 23 Turner (Serjeant John), and his wife 117 Turner (Mrs.) shows her leg to Pepys 210 Turner (Theophila) 117 Verrio’s portrait of Pepys 239 Voltaire, quotation from 183 Wallis (Dr.), his portrait 60 Wedding customs 209 Westminster Hall, the stationers of 109 Whittle (Elizabeth), anagrams upon, by Pepys 5 Wigs, fashion of wearing 207 Willett (Deb.), Pepys’s liaison with her 43 Williamson (Sir Joseph) 191 Wines drunk in Pepys’s time 202 Woolwich dockyard 154 Wren (Matthew) 141 , 270 Wynter (Sir William) 131 , 144 , 277 York Buildings, Pepys’s house there 115

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