CONCLUSION.
“Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.”
_Ecclesiastes_ xii. 13.
Now that all the divisions of our subject have been discussed, there
is little to add in a concluding chapter. We have seen Pepys in his
poverty, when he and his wife struggled to keep up a decent appearance
with an empty larder and a fireless grate at home. We have seen the
sudden change, when he became rich and increased his expenses with
an ever-present sense of the effect of his movements upon the outer
world. And, lastly, we have seen how he lived to an honoured old age,
and passed out of life as a worthy example of virtue and honour. We
have peeped into some of his dearly-loved books, and seen how the
“Bibliotheca Pepysiana” helps to illustrate the character of its
founder.
Having thus looked at the man as he lived, we passed on to his
surroundings. First, we dealt with the town he loved and knew so well,
then made the acquaintance of the relations and friends that surrounded
him, and lastly, tried to understand the arrangements of the office
where he spent so large a portion of his life. This was the inner
circle. The frequenters of the Court and the public characters with
whom he came into occasional contact or knew only from observation at a
distance, formed the outer circle of his life.
Byron, in allusion to the question, “Where is the world?” asked by Dr.
Young at the age of eighty, cried out:--
“Alas!
Where is the world of _eight_ years past? ’Twas there--
I look for it--’tis gone, a globe of glass
Crack’d, shiver’d, vanish’d, scarcely gazed on, ere
A silent change dissolves the glittering mass.
Statesmen, Chiefs, Orators, Queens, Patriots, Kings,
And Dandies, all are gone on the wind’s wings.”
Yet we may point to the pages of Pepys’s “Diary,” and say that there
the globe is still whole, and that there men and women of nearly three
times eighty years ago live and move before our eyes.
In taking leave of the official, the gossip, the musician, and the man
of letters, I can only express the hope that these pages may be found
a useful companion to one of the most interesting books in the English
language.
APPENDIX.
I. PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
II. THE SCHEMES OF ALEXANDER MARCHANT, SIEUR DE ST. MICHEL
(MRS. PEPYS’S FATHER).
III. PEPYS’S MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD.
IV. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
V. PEPYS’S CORRESPONDENTS.
VI. LIST OF THE OFFICERS OF THE NAVY.
VII. PLAYS WHICH PEPYS SAW ACTED.
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APPENDIX I.
PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL PEPYS.
PAINTINGS BY
1. _Savill_ (a painter in Cheapside). 1661. See “Diary,” Nov. 23.
Jan. 6, 1661–62: “I sent my lute to the Paynter’s, and there I
staid with him all the morning to see him paint the neck of my lute
in my picture, which I was not pleased with after it was done.”
Pepys appears to have sat to this same painter for a miniature or
“picture in little,” which cost _£_3. See “Diary,” Feb. 20, 1661–62,
June 11, 1662.
Jan. 28, 1661–62: “The Paynter, though a very honest man, I found
to be very silly as to matter of skill in shadows, for we were long
in discourse, till I was almost angry to hear him talk so simply.”
2. _John Hales._ 1666.
March 17, 1666: “This day I began to sit, and he will make me, I
think, a very fine picture. He promises it shall be as good as my
wife’s, and I sit to have it full of shadows, and do almost break
my neck looking over my shoulder to make the posture for him to
work by.”
March 30, 1666: “To Hales’s, and there sat till almost quite darke
upon working my gowne, which I hired to be drawn in: an Indian
gown.”
April 11, 1666: “To Hales’s, where there was nothing to be found to
be done more to my picture, but the musique, which now pleases me
mightily, it being painted true.”
This picture was bought by Peter Cunningham, at the sale of the Pepys
Cockerell collection in 1848, and it was purchased by the trustees of
the National Portrait Gallery in 1866. The eyes look at the spectator,
and the face is turned three-quarters to the left. The music is Pepys’s
own song, “Beauty Retire.”
“There is a similar picture belonging to Mr. Hawes, of Kensington,
which Mr. Scharf, the Keeper of the National Portrait Gallery,
thinks is either a replica or a good old copy.”--REV. MYNORS
BRIGHT’S edition of the “Diary,” vol. iii. p. 423 (note).
Walpole mentions Hales in his “Anecdotes of Painting,” and says that
he lived in Southampton Street, Bloomsbury, and died there suddenly in
1679.
3. _Sir Peter Lely._ Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.
4. _Sir Godfrey Kneller._ Andrew Pepys Cockerell, Esq. This picture was
lent to the First Special Exhibition of National Portraits, 1866, and
was numbered 950.
5. _Sir Godfrey Kneller._ The Royal Society.
6. _Sir Godfrey Kneller._ Hall of Magdalene College, Cambridge.
7. A small portrait attributed to _Kneller_, representing a seated
figure; with a globe in one corner, and a guitar (or lute) and
compasses on a table, and a ship in the distance at sea. Mr. Scharf
suggests the possibility of this being the portrait by _Savill_
described above (No. 1), and this suggestion seems highly probable.
Mrs. Frederick Pepys Cockerell.
8. _Anonymous._ 1675.
“The picture is beyond praise; but causes admiration in all that
see it. Its posture so stately and magnificent, and it hits so
naturally your proportion and the noble air of your face, that I
remain immovable before it hours together,” &c. T. Hill to Pepys,
Lisbon, July 1, 1675.--SMITH’S “Life of Pepys,” vol. i. p. 161.
9. The picture by Verrio at Christ’s Hospital, of James II. on his
throne receiving the mathematical pupils of the school, contains a
portrait of Pepys. The original drawing for the picture by Verrio is in
the possession of Andrew Pepys Cockerell, Esq.
ENGRAVINGS BY
1. Robert White. Kneller, painter. Portrait in a carved oval frame,
bearing inscription SAM. PEPYS. CAR. ET. JAC. ANGL. REGIB. A. SECRETIS.
ADMIRALIÆ. Motto under the frame, “Mens cujusque is est quisque.” Large
book-plate.
2. Robert White. Kneller, painter. Portrait in an oval medallion on a
scroll of paper. Motto over his head, “Mens cujusque is est quisque;”
underneath the same inscription as on No. 1. Small book-plate.
These two engravings are described by Granger.
3. J. Bragg. Kneller, painter. Frontispiece to vol. i. of the first
edition of the “Diary,” 1825 (4to.). “From the original in the
possession of S. P. Cockerell.” Picture described as No. 7, now in the
possession of Mrs. Frederick Pepys Cockerell.
4. J. Bragg. Kneller, painter. Frontispiece to vol. i. of the second
edition of the “Diary,” 1828; much worn in the third edition, 1848.
“From the original picture in the possession of S. P. Cockerell.”
Picture described as No. 4, now in the possession of Andrew Pepys
Cockerell, Esq.
5. W. C. Edwards. Kneller, painter. Frontispiece to vol. i. of the
fourth edition of the “Diary,” 1854. From the same original as the
preceding article.
6. Charles Wass. Walker, painter. In Smith’s “Life, Journals, and
Correspondence of Pepys,” vol. i. 1841, said to be in the collection of
the Royal Society, but this is a mistake.
PHOTOGRAPHS.
1. From the portrait by Kneller (No. 4), series of photographs
published by the South Kensington Museum under the superintendence of
the Council of the Arundel Society.
2. From Edwards’s engraving of Kneller’s Portrait, “Diary,” ed. Mynors
Bright, vol. i. 1875.
3. From Hales’s Portrait (No. 2), “Diary,” ed. Mynors Bright, vol. iii.
1876.
BUST.
The following extracts from the “Diary” refer to a bust which was made
for Pepys:--
Feb. 10, 1668–69: “So to the plaisterer’s at Charing Cross that
casts heads and bodies in plaister: and there I had my whole face
done; but I was vexed first to be forced to daub all my face over
with pomatum: but it was pretty to feel how soft and easily it is
done on the face, and by and by, by degrees how hard it becomes,
that you cannot break it, and sits so close, that you cannot pull
it off, and yet so easy, that it is as soft as a pillow so safe is
everything where many parts of the body do bear alike. Thus was the
mould made; but when it came off there was little pleasure in it,
as it looks in the mould, nor any resemblance whatever there will
be in the figure when I come to see it cast off.”
Feb. 15, 1668–69: “To the plaisterer’s, and there saw the figure of
my face taken from the mould: and it is most admirably like, and I
will have another made, before I take it away.”
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APPENDIX II.
THE SCHEMES OF ALEXANDER MARCHANT, SIEUR DE ST. MICHEL (MRS. PEPYS’S
FATHER.)
The unpractical schemes of Mons. St. Michel are alluded to on pages
7–8 of this book, but the editors of the “Diary” have taken no pains
to obtain any information respecting him, and his name even does
not appear in the “Diary.” Lord Braybrooke suggests, without any
justification for the suggestion, that Mrs. Pepys’s mother had married
again (see “Diary,” March 29th, 1667).
Pepys was wrong in the date of the patent, which is numbered 138, and
Sir Edward Ford’s name does not appear in it. Sir John Colladon, a
Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians, was naturalized by Charles
II., and appointed one of the Physicians to the Queen.
St. Michel’s name evidently puzzled the man who drafted the patent. The
following is a copy of the original patent:--
“CHARLES THE SECOND, by the grace of God, &c., to all to whom these
p’sents shall come, greeting
“WHEREAS we are informed that John Colladon, Doctor in Phisicke,
and Alexander Marchant, of St. Michall, have, with much paines and
charge, found “A WAY TO P’VENT AND CURE THE SMOAKEING OF CHIMNEYS,
EITHER BY STOPPING THE TUNNELL TOWARDS THE TOP, AND ALTERING THE
FORMER COURSE OF THE SMOAKE, OR BY SETTING TUNNELLS WITH CHECKE
WITHIN THE CHIMNEYES;” wᶜʰ Invenc̃on soe found out as aforesaid was
never publickly exercised or made vse of in anie of our kingdomes
or dominions: And whereas the said John Colladon and Alexander
Marchant have humbly besought vs for their better incouragemᵗ to
exercise and put in practice the said Invenc̃on, that wee would be
gratiously pleased to graunt vnto them, the said Joh. Colladon and
Alexander Marchant, our Lr̃es Patents of Priviledge for the sole vse
and benifitt thereof, for the time and terme of fowerteene yeares,
according to the statute in that case made and provided.
“NOWE KNOWE YE, therefore, that we, of our princely inclinac̃on,
being willing to incourage and promote works of this nature, and to
give all due and fitting incouragemᵗ to the inventers of such arts
as may be of publicke vse and benifitt, of our especiall grace,
certeine knowledge, and meere moc̃on, and vpon the humble petic̃on
of the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, have given and
graunted, and by these p’sents, for vs, our heyres and successors, doe
give and graunt vnto the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant,
their executors, administrators, and assignes, speciall licence, full
power, priviledge, and authoritie, that they and every of them, by
themselves, their or anie of their deputie or deputies, servants,
workmen, or assignes, at all times and from time to time hereafter,
dureing the terme of yeares hereafter in these p’sents expressed,
shall and lawfully may vse, exercise, imploy, and enioy the said
newe Invenc̃on in and throughout all our realmes and dominions, and
every or anie of them, in such manner as to them or anie or either
of them, in their or anie of their discrec̃ons shall seeme meet, and
shall and may have and enioy the sole benifitt and advantage comeing
or ariseing by reason thereof, dureing the terme of yeares hereby
graunted; and to the end, the said John Colladon and Alexander
Marchant, their executors, administrators, and assignes, and every of
them, may the better enioy the full and whole benifitt and the sole
vse and exercise of the Invenc̃on aforesaid, wee doe by these p’sents,
for vs, our heyres and successors, require and streightly cōmaund
all and every person and persons, bodyes politicke and corporate, of
whatsoever qualitie or degree, name or addic̃on, they be, that neither
they nor anie of them, dureing the terme of yeares hereby graunted,
either directly or indirectly, doe or shall vse or put in practice the
said Invenc̃on, soe by the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant
attained vnto or invented as aforesaid, nor doe or shall counterfeit,
imitate, or resemble the same, nor doe or shall make anie addition
therevnto, or substracc̃on from the same, whereby to p’tend themselves
the inventors or devisors thereof, without the licence, consent, or
agreement of the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, their
executors, administrators, or assignes, in writeing vnder their hands
and seales, first had and obteined in that behalfe, vpon such paines
and penalties as can or may be inflicted vpon such offendors for
their contempt of this our cōmaund in that behalfe, and further to be
answerable to the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, their
executors, and administrators, and assignes, according to lawe and
justice, for their damages thereby susteined; to have and to hold all
the said licences, powers, privileges, and authorities hereby graunted
as aforesaid vnto them, the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant,
for & dureing the terme of fowerteene yeares from the makeing of these
p’sentꝬ next ensueing, and fully to be compleate and ended, according
to the statute in such case made and provided. And further, wee doe
by these p’sents, for vs, our heyres and successors, give and graunt
vnto the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, their executors,
administrators, and assignes, full power and authoritie that they and
every of them, their, every or anie of theyr deputies, servantꝬ, and
agents, or anie of them, haveing first obteined a warrant in this
behalfe from the Lord Cheife Justice of the Courte of King’s Bench
for the time being, may, with the assistance of a constable or anie
other lawfull officer, at convenient times in the day, dureing the
terme aforesaid, and in lawfull manner, enter into and make search
in anie houses or other places where there shall be iust cause of
suspic̃on, for discovering and findeing out all such persons as shall,
within the terme of fowerteene yeares aforesaid, imitate or cause
to be imitated, or shall vse or put in practize the said Invenc̃on,
by the said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant invented and found
out as aforesaid, that soe such offenders may be proceeded agᵗ, and
punished according to theyr demeritts, and theyr invenc̃ons and works
tending to the ends aforesaid then and there found, to be seized upon,
broken in peeces, and defaced, and the materialls thereof left in the
hands and custodie of some constable or officer, to be disposed in
such manner and forme as wee, our heyres and successors, shall from
time to time direct and appoint. And further, wee doe by these p’sens,
for vs, our heyres and successors, will, authorize, and require all
and singuler justices of the peace, mayors, sheriffes, bayliffes,
constables, headboroughes, and all other officers and ministers
whatsoever, of vs, our heyres and successors, for the time being, that
they and every of them respectively, be from time to time dureing the
said terme hereby graunted, in theyr respective places, favouring,
aydeing, helping, and assisting vnto the said John Colladon and
Alexander Marchant, theyr executors, administrators, and assigns, and
to theyr and every of their deputy and deputies, servantꝬ and agents,
in and by all things in and about the accomplishment of our will and
pleasure herein declared, and in the exercise and execuc̃on of the
powers and privileges herein and hereby graunted, or menc̃oned to be
graunted, as aforesaid. And moreover, wee will and cōmaund by these
p’sents, for vs, our heyres and successors, that our said officers and
ministers, or anie of them, doe not molest, trouble, or interrupt the
said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, or either of them, theyr
or either of theyr executors, administrators, or assignes, or theyr
or either of theyr deputie or deputies, servants, or agents, or anie
of them, in or about the use or exercise of the said Invenc̃on, or in
any matter or thing concerneing the same. Provided alwayes, that if
at anie tyme dureing the said terme of fowerteene yeares, it shall
be made appeare vnto vs, our heyres or successors, that this our
graunt is contrary to lawe, or p’iudiciall or inconvenient, and not
of publicke vse or benifitt, then vpon significac̃on and declarac̃on
thereof to be made by vs, our heyres or successors, these our Lr̃es
Patents shall forthwith cease, determine, and be vtterly voyde to
all intents and purposes, and the same not to be vsed, exercised,
or imployed, anie thing herein-before menc̃oned to the contrary
notwithstanding. Provided further, that in case it shall be found or
made appeare that the said Invenc̃on is not a newe Invenc̃on of the
said John Colladon and Alexander Marchant, as to the publicke vse and
exercise thereof within this our kingdome of England, then at all
tymes from thenceforth these p’sents shall cease, determine, and be
voyde, anie thing in these p’sents before conteined to the contrary
notwithstanding. Provided alsoe, that these our Lr̃es Patents, or
anie thing herein conteined, shall not extend, or be construed to
extend, to give priviledge to the said John Colladon and Alexander
Marchant, or either of them, their or either of theyr executors,
administrators, or assignes, or anie of them, to vse, or imitate
any invenc̃on or worke found out or invented by anie other person
or persons, and publickly exercised within these our said relmes,
or anie the dominions or territories therevnto belonging, vnto whom
wee have alreadie graunted our like Lr̃es Patents of Priviledge for
the sole vse, exercise, and benifitt thereof; it being our will and
pleasure that the said John Colladon and Alexander Merchant, their
executors, administrators, and assignes, and all and singuler other
person and persons to whom we have alreadie graunted our like Lr̃es
PatentꝬ of Priviledge as aforesaid, shall distinctly vse and practize
their severall Invenc̃ons by them invented and found out, according
to the true intent and meaneing of the said severall and respective
Lr̃es Patents, and of these p’sents. And lastly, wee doe by these
p’sents, for vs, our heyres and successors, graunt vnto the said John
Colladon and Alexander Merchant, their executors, administrators, and
assignes, that these our Lr̃es Patents, or the inrollmᵗ thereof, shall
be in and by all things good, valid, sufficient, and effectuall in the
lawe, according to the true intent & meaneing thereof, and shall be
taken, construed, and adiudged most favourable and benificiall for the
best benifitt and advantage of the said John Colladon and Alexander
Marchant, theyr executors, administrators, and assignes, aswell in
all courts of record as elsewhere, notwithstanding the not full and
certeine describeing the manner and quality of the said Invenc̃on, or
of the mat’ialls thereof, or of the true and certeine vse and benifitt
thereof, and notwithstanding anie other defecte, incerteintyes,
or imperfecc̃ons in these p’sents conteined, or anie act, statute,
ordinance, provision, proclamac̃on, or restreint to the contrary
thereof, in anie wise notwithstanding.
“In witnes, &c. Witnes the King at Westm̃, the
“Second day of May.
“Ꝑ br̃e de privat. sigill.,” &c.
In 1665 St. Michel was again anxious for a patent. The following is
a copy of a petition preserved among the State Papers in the Record
Office:--
“To the Kings most Excellᵗ Maᵗⁱᵉ.
“The humble petic̃ion of Major Allexandʳ Marchant aꝉs de Sᵗ. Michell
upon the River Couanon neare the Towne of Bauge in Anjou in France
Esqᵉ. Sheweth--
“That yoʳ petʳ hath invented the two following publick conveniences,
first, for a generall forme how to keepe alwayes cleare water in
ponds to wash horses, sweete & with as little Mudd in the bottome as
the Owner thereof shall wish, if hee follow the direct modell of yoʳ
Mᵗᵉ petʳ so being no Mudd Stincks (as now it is) a horse may safely
bee washed in it & drinke there. Fire with it may be extinguished
if accidents should happen, the stirring then being not noysome wᶜʰ
now is so much, that in Somer time may cause an increase of the
plague. All which Evills may bee prevented with as little charge to
the owner as in the old fashion, so great inconveniences are (by the
filthiness of these waters) contracted to horses with losses both to
rich & poore especially those of the Army although Farriers for their
gains, Ostlers to save themselves a Labour of going to the River doth
mainteyne stincking water good to heale horses, but are convinced by
the Argumᵗ: That the King having nowhere (as his Mᵗʸ may) the most
stinking ponds to wash his Mᵗᵉ horses (if that were good) that through
the Three Kingdomes by Rivers side & other sweete water where horses
doe goe to Drink, no such corrupt ponds are erected to enter them in
it, coming out of the cleare water.
“All these things considered of yʳ Mᵗⁱᵉ yʳ petʳ beseecheth yoʳ
Royall pleasure for a patent for this publick goode for 14 years
that hee may manifest it. And that yʳ Mᵗⁱᵉ bee pleased to have
incerted in the said patent that nobody whatsoever may not for
the space of the said 14 yeares use the said invention without
your petʳ Lycense under his hand & Seal or the hand & Seale of
his Deputyes in any part of yoʳ Mᵗᵉ Dominions, wherein many ponds
for cattle being so full of Mudd that there remaineth no room for
water, without often great charges or Labour ill spent, Fish ponds
also may bee so ordered. And that your petʳ may find no obsticle in
receiving what hee shall contract for, with the severall partyes
who shall make use of his said Modell.
“Your petʳ further sheweth as to his second publick Convenience That
hee hath also invented, That by Moulding (or by rubbing bricks ready
made in a Mould of ruffe Stone) to any proportion of externall ornamᵗ
for building as that being sooner ready then them that wich are carved
& with great wast, Labour, time & cost spent.
“Your Mᵗⁱᵉˢ petʳ: humbly desires yoʳ Royall Graunt also for it, And
that it may bee inserted in the recited patent, that nobody may
make none, nor cause none to bee made by yʳ petʳˢ Invention of what
proporc̃on or Figure whatsoever to bee moulded or rubbed, but by
Lycence of yoʳ petʳ: in the space of the said 14 yeares the patent
also bearing what forfeiture yoʳ Maᵗᵉ may thinke just, & as also
for the former demand that the discoverers of Transgressing, yoʳ
Maᵗᵉ patent agᵗ: this publick good may find some encouragemᵗ.
“And yoʳ petʳ shall pray,” &c.
The petition was referred to the Attorney-General.
“Att yᵉ Court at Whitehall, June 2, 1665.
“His Maᵗʸ is graciously pleased to referre this Petic̃on to Mʳ.
Attorney Genrall to consider of this petitionᵉʳˢ suit & yᵉ nature
of yᵉ invencon, & to certify his Mᵗʸ what his Opinion is upon it.
And then his Mᵗʸ will be glad to signify his further Pleasure for yᵉ
encouragemᵗ of a publicke Good.
“ARLINGTON.”
The Attorney-General reported as follows:--
“May it please yoʳ most Excellent Majᵗʸ.
“In obedience to yoʳ Majᵗⁱᵉˢ referrence I have considered of
this petic̃on, & conferred with the petʳ thereopon. And in case
the perticulers therein menc̃oned to bee invented by him bee new
Invenc̃ons (as for any thing yett appeareing to mee they are) Yoʳ
Majᵗʸ, if soe graciously pleased, may grant the peticonʳ the sole use
& benefitt thereof for fourteene yeares according to the statute in
that behalfe made.
“And such Grants usually have a provisor therein which render the same
void in case the thing granted bee not a new Invention within the
meaneing of that statute.
“Which I humbly submitt to yoʳ Majᵗⁱᵉˢ further pleasure.
“G. PALMER.”
The result was a warrant for a patent.
“Sᵗ. Michel’s Invenc̃on.
“Whereas Major Alexander Merchᵗ aꝉs Sᵗ. Michaell has by his long
travailes, study, paines, & charges found out an invenc̃on or way for
to keep yᵉ water that is in ponds wherein people wash their horses &
in other ponds wholsome sweet & with little or noe mudd in yᵉ botome
as also a way for yᵉ moulding, grinding or rubbing of bricks in any
forme or shape wᵗsoever fit for the internall & externall ornamᵗ of
any buildings within any of these Our Dominions. And whereas the sᵈ.
Alex. Marchant aꝉs Sᵗ. Michael hath humbly besought us yᵗ Wee would
bee graciously pleased to grant unto him Our Lr̃es Patents of licence
& priviledge for yᵉ sole use & benefit of his severall Invenc̃ons for
yᵉ terme of 14 yeares according to ye statute in such case made &
provided. Our &c: containing our Grant, licence or priviledge unto yᵉ
sᵈ Alexander Merchant aꝉs Sᵗ. Michael of yᵉ sole use & benefit of his
sᵈ s̃rall invenc̃ons within these Our Realmes & Dominions for yᵉ terme
of 14 yeares according to yᵉ statute in yᵗ behalfe made with such
powers clauses & provisoes as are usually incerted in grants of like
nature.
“Snd. &c. yᵉ 7th of July, 1665.
“To Our Attorney Genr̃all. ARLINGTON.”
Not contented with curing smoky chimneys, purifying water, and moulding
bricks, St. Michel proposed in 1667 to raise submerged ships, and to
prevent others from being submerged.
“Propositions dedicated to the King by Alex. Marchant, Sieur de
St. Michel sur Couanon les Bauges, in Anjou, Captain and Major of
English troops in Italy and Flanders, offering to show that he can
draw up all submerged ships; can prevent others from being submerged;
has discovered King Solomon’s gold and silver mines, much vaster
than those discovered by Columbus, and now much fuller than they
were in that King’s time. He wishes to satisfy His Majesty on his
first proposition, lest the other should be deemed unworthy an
audience.”--_Calendar of State Papers, Domestic_, 1667, pp. 252–3.
What a curious comment upon this statement of the discovery of gold and
silver mines is to be found in the following extract from the “Diary”:--
March 29, 1667: “4_s._ a week which his (Balty St. Michel’s) father
receives of the French Church is all the subsistence his father and
mother have, and about 20_l._ a year maintains them.”
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APPENDIX III.
PEPYS’S MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD.
Chapter V. p. 82.--Pepys’s manuscripts in the Rawlinson Collection at
the Bodleian Library, Oxford, are very fully described in the “Oxford
Catalogue of Manuscripts,” and the Rev. W. D. Macray’s Index to the
same. Besides the letters from various persons which are noted further
on in the list of Pepys’s correspondents, are a large number of copies
of letters from Pepys himself. The other papers are described as (1)
Naval and Official, (2) Personal and Miscellaneous. In the first class
are various notes on the state of the navy at different periods,
questions respecting shipbuilding, memorials, minutes, and reports. In
the second class are accounts of expenses, bonds, inventories, lists of
books, &c.; and in both classes are papers of considerable interest for
the purpose of elucidating the particulars of Pepys’s life. Besides the
above there are papers relating to other members of the family.
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APPENDIX IV.
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
Chapter V. p. 98.--The following notice of old musical instruments will
help to illustrate some of Pepys’s allusions:--
“The lute about three hundred years ago was almost as popular as is at
the present day the pianoforte. Originally it had eight thin catgut
strings arranged in four pairs, each being tuned in unison; so that
its open strings produced four tones; but in the course of time,
more strings were added. Until the sixteenth century twelve was the
largest number, or rather, six pairs. Eleven appear for some centuries
to have been the most usual number of strings: these produced six
tones, since they were arranged in five pairs and a single string.
The latter, called the _chanterelle_, was the highest. According to
Thomas Mace, the English lute in common use during the seventeenth
century had twenty-four strings, arranged in twelve pairs, of which six
pairs ran over the finger-board and the other six by the side of it.
This lute was therefore, more properly speaking, a theorbo. The neck
of the lute, and also of the theorbo, had frets consisting of catgut
strings tightly fastened round it at the proper distances required for
ensuring a chromatic succession of intervals.... The lute was made of
various sizes according to the purpose for which it was intended in
performance. The treble lute was of the smallest dimensions, and the
bass lute of the largest. The theorbo, or double-necked lute, which
appears to have come into use during the sixteenth century, had, in
addition to the strings situated over the finger-board, a number of
others running at the left side of the finger-board, which could not
be shortened by the fingers, and which produced the bass tones. The
largest kinds of theorbo were the _archlute_ and the _chitarrone_.
“The most popular instruments played with a bow at that time [1659]
were the treble-viol, the tenor-viol and the bass-viol. It was usual
for viol players to have ‘a chest of viols,’ a case containing four
or more viols of different sizes. Thus Thomas Mace, in his directions
for the use of the viol, ‘Musick’s Monument,’ 1676, remarks: ‘Your
best provision and most complete, will be a good chest of viols six in
number, viz., two basses, two tenors, and two trebles, all truly and
proportionably suited.’ The violist, to be properly furnished with his
requirements, had therefore to supply himself with a larger stock of
instruments than the violinist of the present day.
“That there was, in the time of Shakespeare, a musical instrument
called _recorder_ is undoubtedly known to most readers from the
stage-direction in ‘Hamlet’: ‘Re-enter players with recorders.’ But not
many are likely to have ever seen a recorder, as it has now become very
scarce.”--ENGEL’S _Musical Instruments_ (S. K. M. Art Handbooks), pp.
114–119.
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APPENDIX V.
PEPYS’S CORRESPONDENTS.
Chapter VII.--The following is a list of those friends and
acquaintances whose letters to Pepys are still extant. The greater
proportion of the letters are at Oxford, but some printed in the
“Diary” are at Cambridge.
[The date is that of the letter. B. affixed shows that the MS. is
in the Bodleian Library; S. that the letter is printed in Smith’s
“Life, &c., of Pepys;” and P. that it is printed in the
Correspondence attached to the “Diary.”]
Ackworth, William, Storekeeper in Woolwich Dockyard, 1664. B.
Agar, Thomas, 1679–87. B.
Ailesbury, Robert Bruce, Earl of, 1684. B.
Alberville, Marquis d’ [otherwise White], 1687. B.
Alcock, Thomas, Master Caulker at Portsmouth, 1682–6. B.
Allais, Denise d’, 1680. B.
Andrewes, Sir Matthew, 1686–87. B.
Andrews, Thomas, Contractor for the Victualling of Tangier, 1664. B.
Anglesey, Arthur Annesley, 1st Earl of, 1672. B., S.
Atkins, Samuel. B.
Aylmer, Lieut. George, 1677–78. B.
Baesh, Sir Edward, 1689. B., S. (spelt Beash).
Bagwell, William, Carpenter of H.M.S. “The Prince,” 1668, 1681. B.
Banks, C., 1678. B.
Banks, Sir John, 1672–9. B.
Barlow, Thomas, Clerk of the Acts, 1660–1. B.
Barrow, Philip, Storekeeper at Chatham, 1663. B.
Barry, James, 1678. B.
Bastinck, Francis, 1674, 1679. B.
Batelier, Joseph, Clerk in the Navy Office, 1681–83. B.
Battine, Edward, Clerk of the Survey at Portsmouth, 1687. B.
Beach, Sir Richard, 1677–88. B.
Beane, R., 1682. B.
Beaumont, Basil, Midshipman in the “Phœnix,” 1687. B.
Bedford, Thomas, Deputy-Registrar of the Admiralty, 1687. B.
Belasyse, John, Lord, 1675. B.
Berkeley, John, 3rd Lord, of Stratton, 1678. B., P.
Bernard, Sir John, 1677. B.
Berry, Sir John, 1674–87. B.
Berry, Captain Thomas, 1673. B.
Bertie, Peregrine, 1688. B.
Betts, Isaac, Master Shipwright at Portsmouth Dockyard. B.
Bibaud, Henry, 1686–7. B.
Bickerstaffe, Sir Charles, 1685–88. B.
Bland, Mrs. Sa., 1664. B.
Blathwayt, William, Secretary to James II., afterwards Clerk of the
Council and Secretary at War, 1687. B.
Bodham, W., of Woolwich Ropeyard, 1665–71. B.
Bolland, Captain Richard, 1676–7. B.
Booth, Sir William, Captain of H.M.S. “Adventure,” and Commissioner
of the Navy, 1679–88. B.
Bounty, Captain John, 1680. B.
Bourk, William, Purser, 1687. B.
Bowles, George, 1681. B.
Bowles, Phineas, 1680–9. B.
Brisbane, John, 1679. B.
Brooke, Sir Robert, 1667. B.
Brouncker, William, Lord, 1667. B., P.
Browne, Captain John, afterwards a Cutler, 1682. B.
Browne, John, Alderman and Mayor of Harwich, 1689. B.
Bulkeley, Lord, 1687. B.
Bulteel, P., 1687. B.
Bunce, Stephen, 1676. B.
Burchett, Josiah, 1687–8. B., P., S.
Burton, Dr. Hezekiah, 1677. B., P.
Butler, Sir Nicholas, 1688. B.
Canham, Ambrose, 1684. B.
Carteret, Sir Philip, 1686–7. B., S.
Chamberlayne, C., 1687. B.
Chardin, Sir John, 1687. B.
Charlett, Dr. A., 1700–2. P.
Chetwood, K., 1687. B.
Chicheley, Sir John, 1673. B., S.
Child, John, 1680. B.
Child, Sir Josiah, 1673. B.
Churchill, Captain George, 1688. B.
Clarendon, Henry, 2nd Earl of, 1700–1. P.
Clutterbuck, Sir Thomas, 1671. B., S.
Colinge, Richard. B.
Compton, Dr. Henry, Bishop of London, 1691. P.
Cooke, Thomas, 1687. B.
Copleston, Sir John, 1679. B.
Corie, Thomas, 1675. B.
Cotton, Captain Andrew, 1687. B.
Coventry, Sir William, 1664–76. B. 1665, 1673. P.
Cowse, William, 1688. B.
Cramporne, Thomas, 1674. B.
Creed, John, 1667–87. B.
Custis, Edmund, 1675. B.
Cuttance, Sir Roger, 1667. B.
Dartmouth, George Legge, Lord, 1683–4. B., P. 1684–89. S.
Deane, Sir Anthony, 1666–89. B. 1689. S.
Delaune, Dr. W., 1702. P.
Denise, Claude, Secretary to the Consistory of the Savoy, 1679–81. B.
Dering, Sir Edward, 1687–8. B.
Des Glereaux, Paul Thevenin Sieur, 1680. B.
Des Moulins, Mdlle. Marie Lecoq, 1680–1. B.
Done, Andrew, 1679. B.
Donluis, Felix, 1680–88. B.
Dore, James, 1689. B.
D’Oyly, Edmund, 1679. B.
Dryden, John, 1699. S.
Duck, Mrs. Ann, 1682. B.
Dummer, Edmund, 1679. B., S.
Dunlope, Charles. B., S.
Dyre, Captain William, 1679–81. B.
Elkins, Richard, 1667. B.
Ellis, John, Scrivener, 1678. B.
Erlisman, Captain John, 1681. B.
Ernle, Sir John, 1671. B.
Evelyn, John, 1666–89. B. 1667, 1700. P. 1687–9. S.
Evelyn, Mrs. Mary, 1687. B., S.
Fairfax, George, 1677. B.
Falkener, John, Woolwich Ropeyard, 1664. B.
Feilding, Captain Henry, 1682. B.
Ferrer, Mrs. Jane, 1668. B.
Fist, Anthony, 1671. B.
Fitzpatrick, Colonel John, 1687. B.
Flawes, William, Captain of H.M.S. “Falcon,” 1679. B.
Fletcher, Mathias, Carver to the Navy at Deptford, 1689. B.
Ford, Lieut. Samuel, 1678–88. B.
Fowler, Mrs. Anne, Widow of Capt. Fowler, 1687–8.
Fowler, Thomas, Captain of H.M.S. “Swallow,” 1683–87. B.
Fox, Simon, 1675. B.
Francklin, Samuel, 1682. B.
Frederick, Sir John, 1677. B.
Frowde, Philip, Master of the Post Office, 1688. B.
Furzer, Daniel, Assistant Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard, 1685. B.
Gale, Roger, 1702–3. P.
Gale, Thomas, D.D., 1680–90. B. 1680–8. S. 1688–9, 1700. P.
Galenière, Mons. de, 1702–3. P.
Gauden, Sir Denis, 1671–1682. B.
Gauden, Jonathan, 1689. B.
Gelson, John, 1683. B.
George, Lieut. John, 1679. B.
Gibbon, John, 1675. B., S.
Gibbon, Mary, Wife of Capt. Thomas Gibbon, 1681. B.
Gibbon, Captain Thomas, 1681. B.
Gibson, Dr. Edmond, afterwards Bishop of London, 1696. P.
Gibson, Richard, Victualling Agent to the Navy, 1670–88. B. 1688. P.
Gifford, Captain William, 1688. B.
Gordon, Sir Robert, 1687. B.
Gough, Richard, 1683. B.
Gray, J., son of Lord Gray, of Stamford, 1680. B.
Gregory, Edward, Commissioner of Chatham Dockyard, 1670–89. B.
Guilford, Sir Francis North, Lord, 1677–82. B.
Guillym, S., 1688. B.
Guy, Henry, 1680–1. B.
Gwynn, Francis, 1688. B., S.
Haddock, Sir Richard, 1681. B.
Hall, Thomas, 1681. B.
Hamilton, Thomas, 1679. B.
Hancock, Giles, 1682. B.
Harbord, William, M.P., 1679. B.
Hardesnell, J., 1681. B.
Harman, William, Captain of H.M.S. “Bristol,” 1675. B.
Harris, Alexander, Messenger to the Admiralty, 1679. B.
Hawer, Nathaniel, 1688–9. B. 1688–9. S.
Hayes, Sir James, Commissioner of the Treasury in Ireland, 1666–73. B.
Hayter, Thomas, Clerk of the Acts, and Secretary to the Admiralty,
1673–9. B.
Hebdon, Sir John, 1666, 1681. B.
Herne, Sir Nathaniel, 1674. B.
Hewer, William, 1675–88. B. 1682, 1688. P. 1675–88. S.
Heywood, Captain Peter, 1679. B.
Hickes, Dr. George, 1700–2. P.
Hill, Joseph, B.D., 1676–88. B. 1681–9. S.
Hill, Thomas, 1673–5. B., S.
Hodges, William, Merchant at Cadiz, 1684–88. B.
Holmes, Henry, 1688. B.
Holmes, Sir John, 1677–9. B.
Holmes, Lady M., 1687. B.
Holmes, Sir Robert, 1688. B.
Homewood, Edward, Chatham, 1686–7. B.
Hopson, Sir Thomas, 1688. B.
Hosier, Francis, 1666. B.
Houblon, James, 1674–89. B. 1677–86. S.
Houblon, Mrs., 1683. B., S.
Houblon, Wynne, 1688. B., S.
How, Edward, Carpenter of H.M.S. “Oxford,” 1686. B.
How, Lieut. John, 1675. B.
Howard, Mrs. E., Housekeeper to the Duke of York, 1671. B.
Howard, Sir Robert, 1679. B.
Howe, William, Judge at Barbadoes, 1681–88.
Hughes, Thomas. B., S.
Hunter, S., Clerk to the Trinity House, 1680–87. B.
Jackson, John, brother-in-law of Pepys, 1676. B.
Jackson, John, nephew of Pepys, 1687. B. 1699–1700. P.
Jackson, Samuel, 1688. B., S.
James II., 1688. B., P. 1679–81. P.
Jaques, Captain William, 1678. B.
Jeffreys, George, Lord Chancellor, 1687. B., P.
Jenifer, Captain James, 1667, 1679. B.
Jenkins, Sir Leoline, 1676–85. B. 1678–9. P.
Jenner, Sir Thomas, Baron of the Court of Exchequer 1687. B.
Jodrell, Paul, Clerk of the House of Commons, 1684–5. B.
Jordan, Sir Joseph, 1667. B.
Joyne, John, Watchmaker at Paris, 1680–1. B.
Kember, James. B.
Kennedy, Sir James, Consul in Holland, 1687–8. B.
Killigrew, Admiral Henry, 1679–88. B.
King, Gregory, 1692–3. P.
Kirke, Colonel Piercy, of Tangier, 1683. B.
Kneller, Sir Godfrey, 1690. B., S. 1701–2. P.
Langley, Captain Thomas, Mayor of Harwich, 1667–87. B.
Lanyon, John, Contractor for the Victualling of Tangier, 1664–6. B.
La Pointe, ---- de, 1683. B.
Latour, Raphael de la Bordasse, Seigneur de, 1680. B.
Lee, Robert, Master Shipwright at Chatham Dockyard, 1685. B.
Legendre-Tunier, T., 1669. B.
L’Estrange, Sir Roger, 1681. B.
Lewsley, Thomas, of Chatham, 1664. B.
Lhostein, Captain Augustus, 1674. B.
Littleton, Edward, 1689. B.
Lloyd, Captain David, 1688. B.
Loke, George, of Brampton, 1681. B.
Lorrain, Jacques, 1680. B.
Lorrain, Paul, son of Jacques, 1681. B. 1700. P.
Loton, Rev. John, of Chatham, 1670–88. B. 1688. S.
Lovelace, Thomas, 1680. B.
Lowther, Sir John, Commissioner of the Admiralty, 1689. B.
Luzancy, Hippolitus de, Vicar of Harwich, 1689. B., P.
Lynch, Thomas, Purser, 1680–1. B.
McDonnell, Captain, afterwards Sir Randal, 1687. B.
Martin, Samuel, Consul at Algiers, 1667–76. B.
Maryon, Joseph, of Clare Hall, Cambridge, 1681. B. 1680–1. S.
Matthews, John, of Huntingdon, 1681–7.
Maulyverer, John, of Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1679. B., P.
Mayden, Thomas, Merchant, 1676. B.
Middleton, Martha, Countess of, 1682. B.
Middleton, Colonel Thomas, 1665–7. B.
Miller, Thomas, of Brampton, 1683. B.
Milles, Daniel, D.D., 1681–2. B. 1687. S.
Mills, Rev. Alexander, of Sandwich, 1687. B., S.
Montagu, Rev. John, 1674. B., S.
Moore, Henry, 1667–9. B.
Moore, Sir Jonas, 1678. B., S.
Morales, ---- de, Portuguese Captain, 1680. B.
Mordaunt, Lady Elizabeth, 1680–2. B.
Moreau, Claude, Porter in Paris, 1680–3. B.
Morelli, Cesare, 1674–87. B. 1681. P. 1674. S.
Morland, Sir Samuel, 1677–88. B. 1686–8. P. 1687. S.
Munden, Sir Richard, 1679–80. B.
Murcott, Anne, 1687. B.
Narborough, Sir John, 1679. B.
Nelson, Robert, 1702–3. P.
Nevett, Richard, Purser, 1681. B.
Newlin, Robert, of Seville, 1684. B.
Newton, Sir Isaac, 1693. P.
Nicolls, Captain Matthias, 1681–2. B.
Norfolk, Jane Howard, Duchess of, 1681. P. 1687. B., S.
Norfolk, Thomas Howard, 7th Duke of, 1673. B., S.
Norman, James, 1667. B.
Norwood, Colonel Henry, 1679–81. B. 1679. S.
Orford, Edward Russell, afterwards 1st Earl of, 1689. B., S.
Papillon, Thomas, Merchant, 1673. B.
Parker, Abraham, Muster-master in the Navy, 1673–4 B.
Parry, Francis, Envoy to Portugal, 1679. B.
Peachell, John, D.D., 1680–8. B., P. 1680–8. S.
Pearse, Elizabeth, Laundress to the Queen of James II., 1682. B.
Pearse, James, Surgeon-General to the Fleet, 1666–80. B.
Pearse, James, Jun., 1677–86. B. 1679. S.
Pedley, Sir Nicholas, of Huntingdon, 1682. B.
Peletyer, Antoine, of Paris, 1669–80. B.
Pellissary, Madame Bibaud, of Paris, 1680, 1687. B.
Penn, Sir William, 1664. B.
Pepys, Charles, Master Joiner at Chatham Dockyard, 1689. B., S.
Pepys, John, Sen., 1664. B.
Pepys, John, from H.M.S. “Sapphire,” 1687. B.
Pepys, Richard, 1688. B., S.
Pepys, Roger, M.P., 1674. B.
Pepys, Thomas, 1681. B.
Pepys, Mrs. Ursula, 1680–87. B. 1683. P. 1680. S.
Perriman, J., of Rotherhithe, 1668. B.
Peterborough, Penelope Mordaunt, Countess of, 1680. B.
Pett, Mrs. Ann, widow of Christopher Pett, 1670. B.
Pett, Christopher, 1666. B.
Pett, Sir Peter, 1664–1684. B. 1684. S.
Pett, Peter, 1682. B.
Pett, Sir Phineas, 1672–89. B. 1686–88. S.
Pett, Samuel, 1679. B.
Petty, Sir William, 1683–87. B. 1683. S.
Philipson, John, of Newcastle, 1682. B.
Poole, Sir William, Captain of H.M.S. “St. David,” 1675–9. B.
Povey, Thomas, 1672–86. B. 1672. P. 1680. S.
Prestman, John, 1679. B.
Priaulx, Thomas, of Seville, 1684. B.
Prowd, Captain John, 1676. B., S.
Puckle, James, 1679–80. B.
Raines, Sir Richard, Judge of the Court of Admiralty, 1686–88. B.
Rand, William, Governor of the Sea-Chest, 1672. B.
Reay, Lord, 1699–1700. P.
Reresby, Gars, 1683–4. B.
Rich, Peter, 1680. B.
Richmond, Charles Lennox, Duke of, 1671–2. B., S.
Robins, Judith, 1687. B.
Robinson, Sir Robert, 1667–79. B.
Rochester, Laurence Hyde, Earl of, 1677. B.
Rolfe, John, Alderman of Harwich, 1689. B.
Rooke, Sir George, 1679.
Rooke, Colonel W., 1679. B.
Rooth, Sir Richard, 1674–87. B.
Ross, Thomas, 1674. B., S.
Row, Richard, 1675. B.
Roydon, Charles, Captain of H.M.S. “Guernsey,” 1677–8. B.
Rushworth, Mrs. Hannah, 1676–7. B.
Russell, Charles, 1683. B., S.
Ruvigny, Henri, Marquis de, 1679, 1681–2. B.
Rycaut, Paul, 1686. B.
Sackville, Captain Edward, 1679. B.
St. John, Dr. John, Judge in the East Indies, 1688. B.
St. John, Lady, 1687. B.
St. Michel, Balthasar, 1670–89. B. 1672. P. 1673–4, 1689. S.
St. Michel, Mrs. Esther, 1681–2. B., S.
St. Michel, Samuel, 1689. B., S.
Salisbury, Hugh, 1670. B.
Sandford, S., Alderman of Harwich, 1683, 1686, 1689. B.
Sandwich, Edward Montagu, 1st Earl of, 1665. B., P.
Sandwich, Edward, Lord Hinchinbroke, 2nd Earl of, 1667. B., S.
Sansom, John, 1675. B.
Savile, Henry, 1672–9. B. 1672. P.
Scott, Robert, Bookseller, 1681–8. B. 1688. P. 1681. S.
Seaman, Dr. Robert, Alderman of Harwich. 1688–9. B.
Shadwell, Edward, 1688. B.
Shales, Captain John, 1688. B.
Sheres, Sir Henry, 1675–87. B. 1683. S.
Sheridan, Thomas, 1680. B., S.
Sherwin, Judith, 1680. B.
Shish, Jonas, Shipwright at Sheerness and Deptford, 1664. B.
Silvester, Edward, 1671. B.
Skelton, Bevil, 1686. B.
Skinner, Daniel, 1676–7. B.
Skinner, Ephraim, 1674. B.
Skinner, Mrs. Frances, 1699. B., S.
Skinner, O’Brien, 1679–82. B.
Skinner, Peter, 1686–89. B. 1689. S.
Slingar, Roger, 1684. B., S.
Slingsby, Sir Henry, 1687. B., P.
Smith, Sir Jeremiah, 1667. B.
Smith, Dr. Thomas, 1702. P.
Sotherne, James, 1680. B.
Southwell, Edward, 1682. B.
Southwell, Sir Robert, 1671–88. B. 1681–8. S.
Spencer, William, Bursar of Peter House, Cambridge, 1686. B.
Spragg, Captain Thomas, 1688–9. B.
Spragge, Sir Edward, 1672. B.
Stock, Abraham, of Dover, 1677–88. 1688. S.
Stockdale, Robert, 1674. B.
Stokes, W., Mayor of Dover, 1678. B.
Strickland, Sir Roger, 1688. B.
Sussex, Anne Fitzroy Lennard, Countess of, 1688. B., S.
Taylor, Captain John, of Chatham Dockyard, 1667. B.
Taylor, Captain Silas, 1672. B.
Teddiman, Thomas, 1681. B., S.
Thynne, Henry Fred, 1687. B.
Tilghman, Abraham, Clerk to the Commissioners at Deptford, 1687.
B., P., S.
Tippetts, Sir John, Commissioner of the Navy at Portsmouth, 1664–85.
B.
Torrington, Arthur Herbert, Earl of, 1679. B.
Tosier, Captain John, 1679. B.
Trenchepain, François, 1679–80. B.
Trevanion, Ri, 1680. B.
Trevor, Sir John, 1687. B.
Tuke, Lady (M.), 1687. B., S.
Turner, Dr. John, 1682–87. B. 1680–88. S.
Turner, Mrs. Mary, 1682. B.
Turner, Tim, 1680. B., S.
Tyler, Richard, 1667. B.
Tyrrell, Captain John, 1687. B.
Tyrrell, Sir Timothy, 1679–80. B.
Vernon, John, 1681. B.
Villiers, Sir Edward, 1681. B.
Vincent, Nathaniel, D.D., 1682–8. B. 1682–8. S.
Vittells, Captain Richard, Master Superintendent at Chatham, 1687–8.
B.
Walbanke, John, 1681. B.
Wallis, John, D.D., 1688. B., S. 1699–1702. P.
Waltham, Thomas, 1667. B.
Warner, John, 1685. B., S.
Warren, Sir William, 1664–88. B.
Wells, Jeremiah, Rector of West Hanningfield, Essex, 1670–9. B.
Wescombe, Sir Martin, Consul at Cadiz, 1686. B.
Wheler, George, 1681. B.
Williamson, Sir Joseph, 1689. B., S.
Wivell, E., 1674–87. B.
Wood, Dr. Robert, 1682. B., S.
Woolley, William, 1684. B.
Wren, Matthew, 1669–70. B., P.
Wrenn, Captain Ralph, 1687. B.
Wright, Edward, 1680. B. 1696. P.
Wyborne, Sir John, Deputy Governor of Bombay, 1680–8. B. 1686–8. S.
Wyborne, Lady (K.), 1683–8. B. 1686–7. S.
Wylde, Captain Charles, 1683. B., S.
Yeabsley, Thomas, Contractor for the Victualling of Tangier, 1664–5.
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APPENDIX VI.
LISTS
_Of the Secretaries of the Admiralty, and Principal Officers of the
Navy; viz., Treasurers, Comptrollers, Surveyors, Clerks of the Acts,
and Commissioners of the Navy at Chatham; to the beginning of the
18th century._ (_Compiled by Colonel Pasley, C.B., R.E._)
From the middle of the 16th to the end of the 17th century, Chatham
was by far the most important of the English naval stations, and the
Commissioner resident there had from the first a seat and vote at the
Board in London--a privilege which was not extended to his colleague at
Portsmouth until a much later date. The rise of the latter port dates
from the alliance with the Dutch, and war with France which followed
the accession of William and Mary, and which made it necessary to
establish a first-class naval yard at a less distance from the French
coast than Chatham. The same cause led to the construction of a dry
dock at Plymouth. See “Edmund Dummer,” in the list of Surveyors of the
Navy.
The figures in the first column represent the year of appointment,
when that can be ascertained. The prefix “circ.” implies that the
person named in the second column is known to have held the office at
the time stated, although the date of first appointment is not known.
In some cases the only date that can be found is that of an order
to the Attorney-General to prepare letters patent; sometimes that
of the patent itself; sometimes of a warrant to execute the office,
notwithstanding that the patent is not yet passed; and occasionally
that of a letter from some person at Court informing his correspondent
that the King or Queen has signed such and such a patent. It has been
thought better, therefore, to state only the _year_ of appointment, as
the insertion in lists of this kind of the month and day tends to give
them a delusive appearance of accuracy.
The scantiness of MS. records before the Revolution arises from the
practice which existed of retiring Officers taking away with them their
office books and papers, which they regarded as their own property.
This was put a stop to in the Dockyards by a Navy Board Order of the
18th August, 1692. Unless otherwise stated, the manuscripts in the
following lists are in the British Museum.
SECRETARIES OF THE ADMIRALTY,
_From the first placing of the Office of Lord High Admiral in
Commission to the commencement of the 18th century_.
NOTE.--An asterisk (*) _before_ the name of a titled office-holder
signifies that the title (knighthood or other) was conferred upon him
during his tenure of that office.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority. Lord High Admiral.
1628 Edward Nicholas. Cal. Stᵗᵉ Papers In Commission.
(Domestic
Series).
Nicholas had been Secretary to Lord Zouch, Warden of the Cinque
Ports, and afterwards to the Duke of Buckingham, Lord High
Admiral. On the assassination of the latter, in 1628, the office
of Lord High Admiral was for the first time entrusted to a body
of commissioners instead of to an individual, and Nicholas
was appointed Secretary of the Admiralty. When the Earl of
Northumberland was appointed Lord High Admiral, ten years later,
Nicholas ceased to hold any office immediately connected with
the Navy, but retained the post of Clerk of the Council. He was
afterwards knighted, and became Secretary of State to Charles I.,
and (after the Restoration) to Charles II.
1638 Thomas Smith. Cal. St. Pap. Earl of
Northumberland.
1643 ----? Earl of Warwick.
1645 ----? A Committee of
both Houses of
Parliament.
1648 ----? Earl of Warwick
again.
I have not met with any record of the names of the Secretaries
during the period from 1643 to 1649.
1649 Robert Coytmor. Cal. St. Pap. A Committee of
the Council of
State.
1652 Robert Blackborne. Cal. St. Pap. Commissioners
appointed by Act
of Parliament.
Blackborne had previously held the office of Secretary to the
“Navy Committee,” a Committee of the House of Commons. The
precise relations existing between the numerous committees and
commissions at this period are not very clear.
1653 Robert Blackborne. Cal. St. Pap. Commissioners
appointed by
Act of the
Convention.
1654 Robert Blackborne. Addit. MS. 18,986, Do. by Patent
fo. 150 (Letter of the Protector
to Blackborne Oliver.
from Commissr.
Pett).
1658 Robert Blackborne. Admiralty Orders Do. by Patent
and Instructions, of the Protector
1656 to 1658 Richard.
(Admiralty
Library MS.).
1659 Robert Blackborne. Addit. MS. 9,302, Commissioners
fo. 183 (List of appointed by
Officers and the Rump.
Salaries of the
Admiralty and
Navy before the
Restoration).
Blackborne continued to hold the office of Secretary until the
appointment of the Duke of York as Lord High Admiral in July,
1660. He is frequently mentioned by Pepys.
1660 *Sir William } Duke of York.
Coventry. } From “Mr.
} Hewer’s account
1667 Matthew Wren. } of the Duke of York.
} Secretaries
1672 Sir John Werden. } of the Duke of York.
} Admiralty
1673 Samuel Pepys. } from King King Charles
} Charles II.’s II, with a
} restoration to Commission.
} King James II.’s
1679 Thomas Hayter. } withdrawing, In Commission.
} December, 1688.”
1680 John Brisband. } In Commission.
}
1684 Samuel Pepys. } (MS. in Pepysian King Charles
} Collection, II. (assisted by
} “Naval Minutes.”) the Duke of
} York).
}
1685 Samuel Pepys. } King James II.
}
1688 Samuel Pepys. } Prince of
} Orange.
}
1689 Phineas } In Commission.
Bowles. }
1690 James Sotherne. Luttrell, ii. In Commission.
p. 10.
1694 William Bridgman. Luttrell, iii. In Commission.
p. 341.
1695 William Bridgman Haydn’s “Book of In Commission.
and Josiah Dignities.”
Burchett, joint
Secretaries.
The _date_ of the joint appointment is taken from Haydn, but the
_fact_ is proved by Admiralty letters in the Chatham Dockyard
Records, which about this time bear the signature sometimes of
Bridgman and sometimes of Burchett as Secretary.
1698 Josiah Burchett, Luttrell, iv. 396. In Commission.
alone.
1702 Josiah Burchett. Earl of Pembroke.
1702 Josiah Burchett, Luttrell, v. 176. Prince George of
George Denmark.
Clark, joint.
1705 Josiah Burchett, Luttrell, v. 605. Prince George of
alone. Denmark.
1708 Josiah Burchett. Earl of Pembroke.
1709 Josiah Burchett. In Commission.
NOTE.--Mr. Burchett continued to hold this office until 1742,
when he retired. (“British Chronologist,” 29th Oct., 1742.)
TREASURERS OF THE NAVY,
_To the commencement of the 18th century_.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority.
circ. 1546 Robert Legg. Harleian MS. 249.
The first paper in this volume of the Harleian Collection is
a “Confession taken of 23 of the crediblest forfathers at
Deptford-Strande the 29ᵗʰ day of October (anno R. R. Hen. VIII.
38vo.) consernynge the taking of the Gallye Blancherd, in the
presens of Sir Thomas Cleire, Lieuftennaunt, Robert Legg Esq.
Treasourer, Will. Brocke, Comptroller, Benjamin Gonson, Surveour,
and Rich Brocke, Capitaigne of the Kynges Majesties Gallye
Subtill.” I have not found any record of the date of Legg’s
appointment.
1549 Benjamin Gonson. Additˡ. MSS. vol. 9295, fo. 56.
1577 Benjamin Gonson and Additˡ. MSS. vol.
*Sir John Hawkins, 9295, fo. 56.
joint.
1578 Sir John Hawkins, Cal. St. Papers.
alone.
1595 Vacant. Cal. St. Papers.
On Sir John Hawkins’s death in 1595, Roger Langford, his deputy,
was appointed to do the duty of Treasurer, with the title of
“Paymaster of Marine Causes,” pending the appointment of a new
Treasurer, which did not take place till 1598.
1598 *Sir Fulke Greville.[406] Cal. St. Pap.
1604 Sir Robert Mansell. Cal. St. Pap., and
Phineas Pett’s Autobiography.
1618 Sir William Russell. Cal. St. Pap.
1627 *Sir Sackville Crowe, Cal. St. Pap.
Bart.
Sir Sackville Crowe was one of the Special Commissioners
appointed in 1618 by James I. to inquire into abuses in the
navy. In 1627 Sir W. Russell was superseded in his favour, but
three years later he was charged with misappropriation, or
embezzlement, and was compelled to resign, when Russell was
reinstated.
1630 Sir William Russell, Cal. St. Pap.
again.
1639 Sir William Russell, Cal. St. Pap.
and *Sir Henry
Vane, joint.
1642 Sir Henry Vane, alone. Forster, “Statesmen of the
Commonwealth.”
1651 Richard Hutchinson. Cal. St. Pap.
Hutchinson had been Deputy Treasurer to Sir H. Vane, whom he
succeeded as Treasurer in 1651. He continued to hold that office
until the Restoration. He is several times mentioned in Pepys’s
“Diary.”
1660 Sir George Carteret. Pepys, &c.
Sir George Carteret had been Comptroller of the Navy before the
Civil War.
1667 Earl of Anglesey. Duke of York’s Memoirs, p. 235.
1668 Sir Thomas Osborne, Duke of York’s Memoirs, p. 236.
Bart., Sir Thomas
Littleton, Bart.,
joint.
1671 Sir Thomas Osborne, Duke of York’s Memoirs,
alone. p. 236.
The patent of Sir Thomas Osborne (afterwards Duke of Leeds) to
be sole Treasurer is printed in the Duke of York’s “Memoirs of
the English Affairs,” pp. 235–238. It recites and revokes the
appointments of 1667 and 1668.
1673 Edward Seymour. Collins’s “Peerage of England”
(Sir E. Brydges’ edition),
vol. i. p. 195.
Afterwards Sir Edward Seymour, Bart. The Duke of Somerset and the
Marquis of Hertford are descended from him.
1681 Viscount Falkland. Luttrell, vol. i. p. 76.
Lord Falkland died in 1694. (Luttrell, iii. 317.)
1689 Edward Russell. Collins’s “Peerage,”
vol. i. p. 283.
A distinguished naval commander. Afterwards Earl of Orford, which
title became extinct at his death.
1699 Sir Thomas Littleton, Luttrell, v. 521.
Bart.
Died in 1710. (Luttrell, vi. 530.)
1710 Robert Walpole. Luttrell, vi. 534.
Afterwards Prime Minister and Earl of Orford.
FOOTNOTES:
[406] Afterwards Lord Brooke.
COMPTROLLERS OF THE NAVY,
_To the commencement of the 18th century_.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority.
circ. 1514 John Hopton. Cal. of Letters, &c.,
Henry VIII.
Hopton certainly held the office of Comptroller in 1514, but I
have been unable to ascertain the date of his appointment. He
died about 1524.
circ. 1542 John Osburne. Byng MSS. vol. x.[407]
Admiralty Library
(Pepys’s Naval Collections).
circ. 1546 William Brock. Harleian MS. 249,
No. 1.
1562 William Holstock. Cal. St. Pap.
circ. 1585 William Holstock and Lansdowne MS. 43,
William Borough, No. 33.
joint.
At this period (1585) W. Borough was Clerk _and_ Comptroller
of the Ships, but as Holstock certainly retained the office of
Comptroller till 1589, I presume they must have held it jointly.
circ. 1590 William Borough, Cal. St. Pap.
alone.
After 1589 Holstock’s name appears no more at the foot of
certificates or other papers connected with the navy recorded in
the Calendars of State Papers, and it is probable that he died or
retired then, leaving Borough sole Comptroller. The latter died
about the end of 1598. (Cal. St. Pap.)
1598 Sir Henry Palmer. Cal. St. Pap.
1611 Sir Guilford Slingsby. Cal. St. Pap.
1631 Sir Henry Palmer, Cal. St. Pap.
junior.
1639 Sir Hen. Palmer, jun., Cal. St. Pap.
and Capt. George
Carteret,[408] joint.
1642 In abeyance. Addit. MSS. vol. 9311, fo. 188.
In 1642 the Parliament abolished the offices of Comptroller,
Surveyor, and Clerk of the Acts, and constituted instead of them
a Board of equal Commissioners. The Treasurer remained, but was
no longer a member of the Navy Board.
1660 *Sir Robert Slingsby. Cal. St. Pap.; Pepys’s Diary.
The Navy Board in its old form was re-established at the
Restoration.
1661 Sir John Minnes. Pepys’s Diary.
1671 Sir Thomas Allen. Duke of York’s Instructions
(MS. Admiralty Library).
Died in 1685. (Luttrell, i. p. 358.)
1685 Sir Richard Haddock. Addit. MS. 9322.
1686 In abeyance. Pepys’s Memoir.
The principal officers (except the Treasurer) were suspended, and
the office placed temporarily under the charge of a body of equal
Commissioners, as described in Pepys’s “Memoir.”
1688 Sir Richard Haddock, Pepys’s Memoir.
restored.
Special Commission revoked, and former officers restored.
1715 Sir Charles Wager. Byng MSS. vol. 13
(Admiralty Library).
FOOTNOTES:
[407] This volume contains a transcript of part of Pepys’s
Naval Collections in the Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. It
comprises some extracts from Lord Clarendon’s copy of the Council Books
of King Henry VIII. from 1541 to 1543, one of which records a letter
being written to Mr. Stanhopp and John Osburne, “Comptroller of the
King’s H.’ˢ Ships.” I cannot find the date of his first appointment.
[408] Afterwards Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy.
SURVEYORS OF THE NAVY,
_To the commencement of the 18th century_.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority.
circ. 1546 Benjamin Gonson. Harleian MS. 249. (_See_
Robert Legg, Treasurer.)
Gonson was appointed Treasurer of the Navy in 1549.
1549 *Sir William Winter. Addit. MS. 5752, fo. 6ᵇ.
Letters Patent of Philip and Mary, dated 2nd Nov. 1557, recite a
patent of Edward VI. appointing William Wynter to be “Surveyor of
our Ships,” and go on to appoint him “Master of our Ordnance of
our Ships,” in addition to the Surveyorship. He continued to hold
the joint offices for many years--certainly till 1589, perhaps
later. The date of his death is uncertain.
1598 *Sir John Trevor. Cal. St. Pap.
1611 *Sir Richard Bingley. Phineas Pett’s Autobiography.
1616 *Sir Thomas Aylesbury. Cal. St. Pap.
1632 Kenrick Edisbury. Cal. St. Pap.
This is the “Old Edgborough,” whose ghost was supposed to haunt
the Hill House at Chatham. (Pepys’s Diary, 8th April, 1661.) He
died in 1638.
1638 William Batten. Cal. St. Pap.
Afterwards Sir William. (See 1660 below.)
1642 In abeyance. Addit. MSS. vol. 9311 fo. 188.
A body of Commissioners appointed by Parliament instead of the
principal officers.
1660 Sir William Batten, Cal. St. Pap., and
restored. Pepys’s Diary.
Died in 1667.
1667 Colonel Thomas Pepys’s Diary, 10th Dec. 1667.
Middleton.
_See_ Middleton in List of Commissioners at Chatham, 1672.
1672 *Sir John Tippetts. Duke of York’s Instructions
(MS. in Admiralty Library).
1686 In abeyance. Pepys’s Memoir.
1688 Sir John Tippetts, Pepys’s Memoir.
restored.
1692 Edmund Dummer. Luttrell, ii. 522.
In the British Museum (King’s MS. 40) there is an interesting
account by Dummer of a tour made by him in the Mediterranean
on board H.M.S. “Woolwich” in 1682–84. The volume contains
many plans and drawings. In the reign of William III., Dummer
contrived a simple and ingenious method of pumping water from
dry docks below the level of low tide, which enabled Portsmouth
for the first time to possess a dry dock capable of taking in
a first-rate man-of-war, previously regarded as impracticable,
owing to the small rise of tide there as compared with that at
Woolwich, Deptford, Chatham, and Plymouth. He also designed and
constructed the first docks at Plymouth. (See Harl. MS. 4318;
Lansdowne MS. 847; King’s MSS. 40, 43.)
1699 Daniel Furzer. Luttrell, iv. 556.
1715 Jacob Acworth. Byng Collection, vol.
xiii. (MS. in Admiralty
Library).
CLERKS OF THE SHIPS, OF THE NAVY, OR OF THE ACTS,
_To the commencement of the 18th century_.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority.
circ. 1482 Thomas Roger, or Pepys’s “Miscellanies”
Rogiers. (MS.) and Harleian
MS. 433.
The office of “Clerk of the King’s Ships,” or of the Navy,
afterwards “Clerk of the Acts of the Navy,” is in all probability
a very ancient one; but the first holder of the office whose
name I have met with is Thomas Roger or Rogiers, who seems to
have held it in the reigns of Edward IV., Edward V., and Richard
III. In the third volume of Pepys’s MS. “Miscellanies,” p. 87,
is an entry of an order dated 18th May, 22nd Edward IV. (1482),
to the Treasurer and Chamberlain of the Exchequer to examine and
clear the account of “our well beloved Thomas Roger Esq. Clerk of
our Ships.” Harleian MS. 433 (supposed to have belonged to Lord
Burghley) is a register of grants, &c., passing the Privy Seal,
&c., during the reigns of Edward V. and Richard III., with some
entries of other reigns. No. 1690 is the appointment of “Thomas
Rogiers to be Clerc of all maner shippes to the King belonging.”
It has no date, but is very probably a reappointment by Richard
III. on his assumption of the throne.
Temp. William Comersale. “Letters and Papers,
Henry VII. Henry VIII.,” vol. i. p. 48.
Temp. Robert Brigandyne,
Henry VII. or Brikenden.
1509
“Privy Seal 28 July 1509 for Robert Brikenden to be Keeper or
Clerk of the King’s Ships in the Realm of England, with 12_d._
a day for himself, and 6_d._ a day for his Clerk, in the same
manner as William Comersale,--out of the customs of Exeter and
Dartmouth.”
“Letters and Papers,
Henry VIII.,” vol.
iii. pt. 2, p. 1263.
“Grant 21 April 1523:--Rob. Briganden, of Smalhed, Kent, alias of
Portesmouth. Release, as Clerk of the King’s Ships to Henry VII.
and Henry VIII., and purveyor of Stuffs and timber for the same.”
From these two documents it appears that Brigandyne’s appointment
as Clerk of the Ships in 1509 was a reappointment on the
accession of Henry VIII., and that he had held the same office
under Henry VII. after Comersale, who may very probably have
succeeded Rogiers.
Brigandyne’s name appears very frequently in connection with
naval matters down to October, 1525, after which there is no
mention of him in the Calendar of letters and papers.
1526 Thomas Jermyn, or “Letters and Papers,
Germyn. Henry VIII.,” vol.
iv. pt. 1, p. 954.
Patent 1526, April 3rd. Thomas Jermyn, Yeoman of the Guard and
Crown, to be Keeper or Clerk of the Navy, and Keeper of the Dock
at Portsmouth, with 12_d._ a day, and 6_d._ a day for a Clerk,
out of the issues of the Ports of Exeter and Dartmouth.
From this date to 1530 there are numerous entries connected with
Jermyn’s accounts as Clerk of the Ships.
circ. 1540 Sir Thomas Spert. Pepys’s “Miscellanies,”
vol. vii. (MS. at
Magdalene College).
This volume of the “Miscellanies” includes a collection of
payments made to the navy between 1537 and 1541. Amongst these
are regular half-yearly payments at the rate of _£_33 6_s._ 8_d._
to “Sir Thomas Spert, Clerke of the King’s Ships.”
circ. 1563 George Winter. Addit. MSS. vol. 5752.
This volume contains an order of Queen Elizabeth, dated 16th
July, 1563, to Lord Clinton, Lord High Admiral, to deliver
certain stores to George Winter, “Clerk of our Ships.” I have
been unable to find the date of his appointment to this office,
which he continued to hold till his death in 1581. His epitaph
in Dyrham Church, Gloucestershire, is printed in Bigland’s
Collection. He was brother to Sir William Winter, Surveyor of the
Navy and Master of Sea Ordnance.
circ. 1585 William Borough. Lansdowne MS. 43,
No. 33.
In February of this year Borough was Clerk _and_ Comptroller:
see his letter of this date (Feb. 1584, meaning no doubt 1585
as years are counted now) to Lord Burghley (Lansd. MSS. 43, 33)
beginning, “To the righte honnorable the L. Burghley Lord Highe
Treasourer of Englande--your suppliant William Borough Clarke and
Comptroller of her Maᵗⁱᵉ Shippes,” &c. The paper is endorsed, “A
dewtifull declaration, February Anᵒ. 1584. By William Borough
Clarke and Comptroller of her Maᵗⁱᵉ Navie.” It is an original
letter, the body written in a very neat hand of the period, and
signed by Borough himself in a different, but also very neat,
hand. As William Holstock was certainly Comptroller at this time,
and had been so for more than twenty years, it is probable that
he and Borough held that office jointly, whilst Borough also
performed the functions of Clerk of the Ships. (_See_ List of
Comptrollers.) As Winter died in 1581, and Borough had certainly
been Clerk for some time before the date of his letter, it is
probable that he immediately succeeded Winter.
circ. 1600 *Sir Peter Buck. Phineas Pett’s Autobiography.
As Borough died in 1598 (Cal. St. Pap.), it is probable he was
succeeded about that time by Peter Buck; but the first occasion
on which I find the name of the latter mentioned as Clerk of the
Ships is in the year 1600, by Phineas Pett. Sir Henry Palmer
certainly succeeded Borough in the Comptrollership in 1598 (Cal.
St. Pap.). Buck died in 1625. He had been for some years Clerk
of the Cheque at Chatham before his appointment to the Board.
He is mentioned by Pepys as one of his predecessors (“Diary,”
14 Dec. 1660), who was not a little proud of his office having
once been held by a knight. Lord Braybrooke, in his note to this
entry, says that Buck was Secretary to Algernon Percy, Earl of
Northumberland; but Buck was Clerk of the Navy at least two years
before the Earl was born, and died when the latter was only
twenty-three years of age.
1625 Dennis Fleming. Cal. St. Pap.
1638 Dennis Fleming and Cal. St. Pap.
Thomas Barlow,
joint.
1642 In abeyance. Addit. MSS. vol. 9311
fo. 188.
A body of Commissioners appointed by Parliament instead of the
principal officers.
1660 Samuel Pepys.
Lord Braybrooke, in his note to the entry of the 27th June, 1660,
quotes Pepys’s patent, in which Fleming and Barlow’s joint patent
is recited and revoked, and Pepys was appointed Clerk of the
Acts at a salary of _£_33 6_s._ 8_d._ per annum. But this amount
was only the ancient “fee out of the Exchequer” which had been
attached to the office for more than a century. Pepys’s salary
had been previously fixed at _£_350 a year. Lord Braybrooke
says, in a note to 9th Feb. 1664–65, that “Barlow had previously
been Secretary to Algernon, Earl of Northumberland, when High
Admiral;” but he was appointed Clerk of the Acts two months
before the Earl became Lord High Admiral. Barlow had, however,
been in his service at an earlier date, and had been appointed by
the Earl Muster-Master of the Fleet under his command in 1636.
(Cal. St. Pap.)
1674 Thomas Hayter and Addit. MSS. vol. 9307.
John Pepys, joint.
When Pepys was promoted to be Secretary of the Admiralty, he was
succeeded in the office of Clerk of the Acts by his clerk and his
brother jointly.
1677 Thomas Hayter and Orders and Warrants,
James Sotherne, 1676–78 (MS. in Admiralty
joint. Library).
Sotherne was appointed “one of the Clerkes of yᵉ Acts of our Navy
Royall,” in the place of John Pepys “lately deceased:” 12th March,
1676–77.
1679 James Sotherne,
alone.
Hayter was promoted to be Secretary of the Admiralty when Pepys
was thrown into prison.
1686 In abeyance. Pepys’s Memoir.
Special temporary Commission appointed, and the principal
officers suspended.
1688 James Sotherne, Pepys’s Memoir.
restored.
Special Commission revoked.
circ. 1690 Charles Sergison.
Sotherne was made Secretary of the Admiralty in January, 1690,
and it is probable that Sergison immediately succeeded him. The
Letter-books of the Navy Board at Chatham show that he held the
office in 1691, and held it until 1719.
1719 Tempest Holmes. Byng Collection, vol.
xiii. (MS. in Admiralty
Library).
COMMISSIONERS OF THE NAVY APPOINTED TO RESIDE AT CHATHAM,
_From the first establishment of that office in 1630 to the
commencement of the 18th century_.
Date of
Appointment. Name. Authority.
1630 Phineas Pett. Phineas Pett’s Autobiography
(Addit. MS. 9298).
This interesting MS., in Pett’s own handwriting, contains full
details of the life of the celebrated builder of the “Royal
Sovereign,” or “Sovereign of the Seas,” from his birth in 1570
until 1637, when it breaks off abruptly. It is endorsed, in a
much later handwriting: “The life of Comʳ. Pett’s father, whose
place he did enjoy.” A few leaves are wanting, but their contents
are supplied by a complete transcript in the Harleian MS. 6279,
in which, however (as well as in another transcript in the
Pepysian Library), the orthography is somewhat modernized, and
the handwriting is that of the latter part of the 17th century.
Extracts from a copy of the Harleian transcript are printed in
“Archæologia,” vol. xii.
Pett died in 1647, at Chatham. Having submitted to the
Parliament in 1642, he retained his office until his death in
1647.[409]
1647 Peter Pett. Addit. MSS. vol. 9306
(Navy Board Letter-book),
shows that in
Nov. 1648, Peter
Pett held this office.
I have not met with Peter Pett’s original appointment, but I have
no doubt that he immediately succeeded his father Phineas, on the
death of the latter in 1647. He was continued in the same office
after the Restoration. In 1667, in consequence of the Dutch
attack on Chatham, he was superseded, sent to the Tower, and
threatened with impeachment. The threat was not carried out, but
he was never restored to office.
1667 Vacant.
No new appointment was made for nearly two years after Pett’s
removal.
1669 *Sir John Cox. Pepys’ Diary: Narborough’s Diary.
Cox was master of the Duke of York’s flagship, “Royal Charles,”
in the victory over the Dutch Admiral Opdam, 3rd June, 1665. Was
captain of the “Sovereign” in the three days’ battle with the
Dutch fleet in June, 1666. Master Attendant at Deptford in 1667.
Resident Commissioner at Chatham, March, 1669. Appointed, 15th
Jan. 1672, Flag-Captain to the Duke of York in the “Prince,”
without vacating his office at Chatham. Knighted by King Charles
II., on board the “Prince,” at the Nore, on the 27th April.
Killed at the Battle of Sole Bay, on the 28th May in the same
year.
(See “Diary” of Captain John Narborough (afterwards Sir John),
whilst serving as First Lieutenant on board the “Prince.” It is
amongst the Pepysian MSS. at Magdalene College, and there is a
transcript in the Admiralty Library.)
1672 Colonel Thomas Duke of York’s Instructions
Middleton. (MS. in Admiralty Library).
Colonel Middleton was one of the Commissioners of the Admiralty
appointed by the Rump in January, 1660. Engaged in the West India
trade after the Restoration (see Duke of York’s “Memoirs,” p. 9).
Appointed Commissioner at Portsmouth in 1664, and Surveyor of
the Navy in 1667. Removed to Chatham as Resident Commissioner in
June, 1672. Died in December of the same year.
1672 *Sir Richard Beach. Duke of York’s Instructions
(MS. in Admiralty Library).
Captain of H.M.S. the “Crown” in February, 1663. Served at sea
till 1672, in which year he captured an Algerine man-of-war.
Appointed Resident Commissioner at Chatham in Dec. 1672, and
transferred to Portsmouth in the same capacity in 1679. Removed
to the Board in London as Comptroller of Victualling Accounts in
1690. Died in May, 1692.
1679 *Sir John Godwin. Addit. MS. 9312.
Served in the navy as a lieutenant, and subsequently in the
Victualling Department. Appointed Commissioner at Chatham in Dec.
1679; removed to the Board in London, March, 1686; died in 1689.
1686 Sir Phineas Pett. Pepys’s Memoirs.
Son of Peter Pett, shipbuilder, of Ratcliffe, and grand-nephew
of Phineas Pett, the first Commissioner at Chatham. Appointed
Master Shipwright at Portsmouth in June, 1660, and transferred to
Chatham in the same capacity in the following month. Dismissed
for misbehaviour in office on the 25th Sept., 1668, but restored
three months afterwards on making submission and surrendering
his patent. Promoted to the Board in London as Comptroller of
Victualling Accounts on the 5th August, 1680, and knighted by
the King on the same day. Transferred to Chatham as Commissioner
in 1686. Dismissed on account of his political opinions on the
accession of William and Mary.[410]
1689 *Sir Edward Gregory. Admiralty Orders,
1688–9 (MS. in the
Public Record Office).
Served as a purser in the navy in 1662–3. Succeeded his father as
Clerk of the Cheque in Chatham Yard in Feb. 1665, which office
he resigned after holding it nearly twenty years. Appointed
Commissioner at Chatham on the 20th April, 1689. Knighted by
William III. in Jan. 1691. Retired on a pension of _£_300 a year
in June, 1703. Died in 1713.
1703 Captain George St. Chatham Records.
Lo.
Attained the rank of captain in 1682. When in command of the
“Portsmouth,” in 1689, was captured with his ship, and taken into
Brest severely wounded. In 1693 he published a tract, entitled,
“England’s Safety or a bridle to the French King.” In the same
year he was appointed a member of the Navy Board. Transferred to
Plymouth as Commissioner in 1695, and from thence to Chatham in
1703. Superseded on the accession of George I., in 1714, by the
omission of his name from the new patent for the Navy Board.
FOOTNOTES:
[409] Chatham Parish Register, quoted in “Archæologia,” vol. xii. p.
284.
[410] _Note respecting Sir Phineas Pett._--There were so many
shipbuilders of the name of Phineas Pett, that it is often difficult to
trace the history of any one of them. In February, 1660, Phineas Pett,
son of John Pett, and grandson of Commissioner Phineas Pett, being then
Assistant-Master Shipwright at Chatham, petitioned to be promoted, and
was appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham in the same month. But it
would appear that the appointment was revoked, or never carried into
effect, for in the following July we find Phineas Pett, “of Ratcliffe,”
who had been appointed Master Shipwright at Portsmouth in June,
transferred to Chatham in the same capacity. And in September Phineas
Pett, Assistant-Master Shipwright at Chatham, was suspended from office
on the accusation of having, _when a child_, spoken contemptuously of
the King! For this offence he was dismissed in the following month.
[Illustration: Decoration]
[Illustration: Decoration]
APPENDIX VII.
PLAYS WHICH PEPYS SAW ACTED.
CHAPTER XII.--Pepys was not very careful in setting down the titles
of the plays he saw, and in many instances he quotes the second
titles alone. This caution must be remembered by those consulting the
following list:--
Adventures of Five Hours (Tuke), “Duke’s,” Jan. 8, 17, 1662–63;
Jan. 27, 1668–69; “Court at Whitehall,” Feb. 15, 1668–69.
Aglaura (Suckling), “King’s,” Jan. 10, 1667–68.
Albumazar (Tomkis), “Duke’s,” Feb. 22, 1667–68.
Alchymist (Ben Jonson), “Theatre,” June 22, Aug. 14, 1661;
“King’s,” April 17, 1669.
All’s Lost by Lust (W. Rowley), “Red Bull,” March 23, 1661.
Antipodes (R. Brome), “Theatre,” Aug. 26, 1661.
Argalus and Parthenia (Glapthorne), “Theatre,” Oct. 28, 1661.
Bartholomew Fair (Ben Jonson), “Theatre,” June 8, Sept. 7, 1661;
“King’s,” Aug. 2, 1664; “Court at Whitehall,” Feb. 22, 1668–69.
Beggar’s Bush (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Lincoln’s Inn Fields”
(King’s Company), Nov. 20, 1660; “Theatre,” Oct. 8, 1661;
“King’s,” April 24, 1668.
Black Prince (Lord Orrery), “King’s,” Oct. 19, 23, 1667; April 1,
1668.
Bondman (Massinger), “Whitefriars,” March 1, 1660–61; “Salisbury
Court,” March 26, 1661; “Opera,” Nov. 4, 26, 1661; April 2, 1662.
Brenoralt (Suckling), “Theatre,” July 23, 1661; “King’s,” Aug. 12,
Oct. 19, 1667. (_See_ “Discontented Colonel.”)
Cardinal (Shirley), “Cockpit” (Whitehall), Oct. 2, 1662; “King’s,”
Aug. 24, 1667; April 27, 1668.
Catiline (Ben Jonson), “King’s,” Dec. 11, 1667.
Catiline’s Conspiracy (Stephen Gosson), “King’s,” Dec. 19, 1668.
Chances (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Theatre,” April 27, Oct. 9, 1661;
“King’s,” Feb. 5, 1666–67.
Change of Crowns (Edward Howard), “King’s,” April 15, 1667.
City Match (Mayne), “King’s,” Sept. 28, 1668.
Claracilla (Thomas Killigrew), “Theatre,” July 4, 1661; “Cockpit”
(Whitehall), Jan. 5, 1662–63; “King’s,” March 9, 1668–69.
Coffee House (St. Serfe), “Duke’s,” Oct. 5, 15, 1667.
Committee (Sir Robert Howard), “Royal Theatre,” June 12, 1663;
“King’s,” Aug. 13, Oct. 29, 1667; May 15, 1668.
Country Captain (Duke of Newcastle), “Theatre,” Oct. 27, Nov. 26,
1661; “King’s,” Aug. 14, 1667; May 14, 1668.
Coxcomb (Beaumont and Fletcher), “King’s,” March 17, 1668–69.
Cupid’s Revenge (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Duke’s,” Aug. 17, 1668.
Custom of the Country (Beaumont and Fletcher), “King’s,” Aug. 1,
1667.
Cutter of Coleman Street (Cowley), “Opera,” Dec. 16, 1661.
(_See_ “Guardian.”)
Discontented Colonel (Suckling), “King’s,” March 5, 1667–68.
(_See_ “Brenoralt.”)
Duchess of Malfy (Webster), “Duke’s,” Sept. 30, 1662; Nov. 25,
1668.
Duke of Lerma (Sir Robert Howard), “King’s,” Feb. 20, 1667–68.
Elder Brother (Fletcher), “Theatre,” Sept. 6, 1661.
English Monsieur (Hon. James Howard), “King’s,” Dec. 8, 1666;
April 7, 1668.
English Princess, or Richard III. (J. Caryl), “Duke’s,” March 7,
1667.
Evening Love (Dryden), “King’s,” June 19, 1668.
Faithful Shepherdess (Fletcher), “Royal Theatre,” June 13, 1663;
“King’s,” Oct. 14, 1668; Feb. 26, 1668–69.
Father’s Own Son, “Theatre,” Sept. 28, Nov. 13, 1661.
Faustus, Dr. (Marlow), “Red Bull,” May 26, 1662.
Feign Innocence, or Sir Martin Marr-all (Duke of Newcastle,
corrected by Dryden), “Duke’s,” Aug. 16, 20, 1667. (_See_ “Sir
Martin Marr-all.”)
Flora’s Vagaries (Rhodes), “King’s,” Aug. 8, 1664; Oct. 5, 1667;
Feb. 18, 1667–68.
French Dancing Master, “Theatre,” May 21, 1662.
General (Shirley), “King’s,” April 24, 1669.
Generous Portugals, “King’s,” April 23, 1669.
German Princess (Holden), “Duke’s,” April 15, 1664.
Ghosts (Holden), “Duke’s,” April 17, 1665.
Goblins (Suckling), “King’s,” May 22, 1667.
Grateful Servant (Shirley), “Duke’s,” Feb. 20, 1668–69.
Greene’s Tu Quoque (Cooke), “Duke’s,” Sept. 12, 16, 1667.
Guardian (Cowley), “Duke’s,” Aug. 5, 1668. (_See_ “Cutter of
Coleman Street.”)
Guzman (Lord Orrery), “Duke’s,” April 16, 1669.
Hamlet (Shakespeare), “Opera,” Aug. 24, 1661; “Theatre,” Nov. 27,
1661; “Duke’s,” May 28, 1663; Aug. 31, 1668.
Heiress (Duke of Newcastle?), “King’s,” Feb. 2, 1668–69.
Henry IV. (Shakespeare), “Theatre,” Dec. 31, 1660–61; June 4, 1661;
“King’s,” Nov. 2, 1667; Jan. 7, 1667–68; Sept. 18, 1668.
Henry V. (Lord Orrery), “Duke’s,” Aug, 13, 1664; July 6, 1668; “Court
at Whitehall,” Dec. 28, 1666.
Henry VIII. (Shakespeare or Davenant), “Duke’s,” Dec. 10, 22, 1663;
Jan. 1, 1663–64; Dec. 30, 1668–69.
Heraclius (Corneille), “Duke’s,” March 8, 1663–64; Feb. 4, 1666–67;
Sept. 5, 1667.
Horace (Corneille, translated by Catherine Phillips), “King’s,”
Jan. 19, 1668–69.
Humorous Lieutenant (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Cockpit” (Whitehall),
April 20, 1661.
Hyde Park (Shirley), “King’s,” July 11, 1668.
Impertinents (Shadwell), “Duke’s,” May 2, 4; June 24, 1668; April 14,
1669. (_See_ “Sullen Lovers.”)
Indian Emperor (Dryden), “King’s,” Aug. 22, 1667; Nov. 11, 1667;
March 28, April 21, 1668.
Indian Queen (Howard and Dryden), “King’s,” Jan. 31, 1663–64; June 27,
1668.
Island Princess (Beaumont and Fletcher), “King’s,” Jan. 7, Feb. 9,
1668–69.
Jovial Crew (R. Brome), “Theatre,” July 25, Aug 27, Nov. 1, 1661;
“King’s,” Jan. 11, 1668–69.
King and no King (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Theatre,” March 14,
1660–61; Sept. 26, 1661.
Knight of the Burning Pestle (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Theatre,”
May 7, 1662.
Labyrinth (Corneille), “King’s,” May 2, 1664.
Ladies a la-Mode (Dryden? Translated from the French), “King’s,”
Sept. 15, 1668.
Lady’s Trial (Ford), “Duke’s,” March 3, 1668–69.
Law against Lovers (Davenant), “Opera,” Feb. 18, 1661–62.
Liar (Corneille), “King’s,” Nov. 28, 1667.
Little Thief (Fletcher), “White Friars,” April 2, 1661; “Theatre,”
May 19, 1662.
Love and Honour (Davenant), “Opera,” Oct. 21, 1661.
Love at first Sight (Killigrew), “Theatre,” Nov. 29, 1661.
Love Despised (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Duke’s,” Aug. 17, 1668.
Love in a Maze (Shirley), “Theatre,” May 22, 1662; June 10, 1663;
“King’s,” May 1, 1667; Feb. 7, 1667–68; April 28, 1668.
Love in a Tub (Etherege), “Court at Whitehall,” Oct. 29, 1666;
“Duke’s,” April 29, 1668.
Love’s Cruelty (Shirley), “King’s,” Dec. 30, 1667.
Love’s Mistress (T. Heywood), “Theatre,” March 11, 1660–61.
Love’s Quarrel, “Salisbury Court,” April 6, 1661; “King’s,” May 15,
1665; Aug. 15, 1668.
Love’s Tricks or the School of Compliment (Shirley), “Duke’s,”
Aug. 5, 1667.
Macbeth (Shakespeare), “Duke’s,” Nov. 5, 1664; Dec. 28, 1666; Jan. 8,
1666–67; Oct. 16, Nov. 7, 1667; Aug. 12, Dec. 21, 1668;
Jan. 15, 1668–69.
Mad Couple (Hon. James Howard), “King’s,” Sept. 20, Dec. 28, 1667;
July 29, 1668.
Mad Lover (Beaumont and Fletcher), “White Friars,” Feb. 9, 1660–61;
“Opera,” Dec. 2, 1661; “Duke’s,” Feb. 18, 1668–69.
Maid of the Mill (Fletcher and Rowley), “Opera,” April 1, 1662;
“Duke’s,” Sept. 10, 1668.
Maid’s Tragedy (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Theatre,” May 16, 1661;
“King’s,” Dec. 7, 1666; Feb. 18, 1666–67; April 15, May 9, 1668.
Maiden Queen (Dryden), “King’s,” March 2, 1666–67; May 24, Aug. 23,
1667; Jan. 24, 1667–68; Jan. 1, 13, 1668–69.
Man is the Master (Davenant, translated from Scarron), “Duke’s,”
March 26, May 7, 1668.
Merry Devil of Edmonton, “Theatre,” Aug. 10, 1661.
Merry Wives of Windsor (Shakespeare), “Theatre,” Dec. 5, 1660; Sept.
25, 1661; “King’s,” Aug. 15, 1667.
Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare), “King’s,” Sept. 29, 1662.
Mistaken Beauty (Corneille), “King’s,” Nov. 28, 1667.
Mock Astrologer, “King’s,” March 8, 1668–69.
Monsieur Ragou (J. Lacey), “King’s,” July 31, 1668.
Moor of Venice (Shakespeare), “Cockpit” (Whitehall), Oct. 11, 1660;
“King’s,” Feb. 6, 1668–69.
Mulberry Garden (Sedley), “King’s,” May 18, June 29, 1668.
Mustapha (Lord Orrery), “Duke’s,” April 3, 1665; Jan. 5, 1666–67;
Sept. 4, 1667; Feb. 11, 1667–68.
Northern Castle, “King’s,” Sept. 14, 1667.
Othello (Shakespeare), “Cockpit” (Whitehall), Oct. 11, 1660; “King’s,”
Feb. 6, 1668–69.
Parson’s Wedding (T. Killigrew), “King’s,” Oct. 11, 1664.
Philaster (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Theatre,” Nov. 18, 1661; “King’s,”
May 30, 1668.
Queen Elizabeth’s Troubles (T. Heywood), “Duke’s,” Aug. 17, 1667.
Queen of Arragon (W. Habington), “Duke’s,” Oct. 19, 1668.
Queen’s Masque (T. Heywood), “Salisbury Court,” March 2, 25, 1660–61.
(_See_ “Love’s Mistress.”)
Rival Ladies (Dryden), “King’s,” Aug. 4, 1664.
Rivals (Davenant, from “Two Noble Kinsmen”), “Duke’s,” Sept. 9,
Dec. 1664.
Rolla [Query, same as “Rollo”], “King’s,” April 17, 1667.
Rollo, Duke of Normandy (J. Fletcher), “Theatre,” March 28, 1661;
“King’s,” Sept. 17, 1668.
Roman Virgin (Betterton’s alteration of Webster’s “Appius and
Virginia”), “Duke’s,” May 12, 1669.
Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare), “Opera,” March 1, 1661–62.
Royal Shepherdess (alteration by Shadwell of Fountain’s “Rewards of
Virtue”), “Duke’s,” Feb. 26, 1668–9.
Rule a Wife and have a Wife (J. Fletcher), “Whitefriars,” April 1,
1661; “Theatre,” Feb. 5, 1661–62.
School of Compliments (Shirley), “Duke’s,” Jan. 7, 1667–68.
Scornful Lady (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Cockpit” (Whitehall),
Nov. 17, 1662; “King’s,” Dec. 27, 1666; Sept. 16, 1667;
June 3, 1668.
Sea Voyage (Beaumont and Fletcher), “King’s,” May 16, 1668.
She Would if She Could (Etherege), “Duke’s,” Feb. 6, 1667–68; Feb. 1,
1668–69.
Siege of Rhodes, Part 2 (Davenant), “Opera,” Nov. 15, 1661; May 20,
1662; “Duke’s,” Dec. 27, 1662, May 21, 1667.
Silent Woman (Ben Jonson), “Theatre,” May 25, 1661; “King’s,” June 1,
1664; April 16, 1667; Sept. 19, 1668.
Sir Martin Marr-all (Duke of Newcastle, corrected by Dryden),
“Duke’s,” Aug. 16, 20, Sept. 28, Oct. 14, 1667; Jan. 1, 1667–68;
April 25, May 22, 1668.
Slighted Maid (Sir R. Stapylton), “Duke’s,” Feb. 23, 1662–63;
May 29, 1663.
Spanish Curate (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Whitefriars,” March 16,
1660–61; July 28, 1668; “King’s,” May 17, 1669.
Spanish Gipsy (Middleton and Rowley), “King’s,” March 7, 1667–68.
Storm (Fletcher), “King’s,” Sept. 25, 1667; March 25, 1668.
Sullen Lovers or the Impertinents (T. Shadwell), “Duke’s,” May 2, 4,
June 24, 1668; April 14, 1669. (_See_ “Impertinents.”)
Surprisal (Sir Robert Howard), “King’s,” April 8, Aug. 27, 1667;
Dec. 26, 1667; April 17, May 1, 1668.
Tamer tamed (Fletcher), “Cockpit,” Oct. 30, 1660; “Theatre,”
July 31, 1661.
Taming of a Shrew (alteration from Shakespeare), “King’s,” April 9,
Nov. 1, 1667.
Tempest (Shakespeare), “Duke’s,” Nov. 7, 13, Dec. 12, 1667; Jan. 6,
Feb. 3, 1667–68; April 30, May 11, 1668.
’Tis a pity she’s a Whore (Ford), “Salisbury Court,” Sept. 9, 1661.
Traitor (Shirley), “New Playhouse,” Nov. 22, 1660; “Theatre,” Oct. 10,
1661; “King’s,” Jan. 13, 1664–65; Sept. 2, 1667.
Tryphon (Lord Orrery), “Duke’s,” Dec. 8, 9, 1668.
Twelfth Night (Shakespeare), “Opera,” Sept. 11, 1661; “Duke’s,”
Jan. 6, 1662–63; Jan. 20, 1668–69.
Unfortunate Lovers (Davenant), “Duke’s,” March 7, 1663–64; April 8,
Dec. 3, 1668.
Ungrateful Lovers [Query, same play as previous one], “Duke’s,”
Sept. 11, 1667.
Usurper (E. Howard), “King’s,” Jan. 2, 1663–64; Dec. 2, 1668.
Valiant Cid (translation from Corneille), “Cockpit” (Whitehall),
Dec. 1, 1662.
Victoria Corombona (Webster), “Theatre,” Oct. 2, 1661.
Villain (T. Porter), “Duke’s,” Oct. 20, Dec. 26, 1662; Jan. 1,
1662–63; Oct. 24, 1667.
Virgin Martyr (Massinger), “Theatre,” Feb. 16, 1660–61; “King’s,”
Feb. 27, 1667–68; May 6, 1668.
Volpone (Ben Jonson), “King’s,” Jan. 14, 1664–65.
Wild Gallant (Dryden), “Court at Whitehall,” Feb. 23, 1662–63.
Wild-goose Chase (Beaumont and Fletcher), “King’s,” Jan. 11, 1667–68.
Wit in a Constable (Glapthorne), “Opera,” May 23, 1662.
Wit Without Money (Fletcher), “Cockpit,” Oct. 16, 1660; “King’s,”
April 22, 1663.
Wits (Davenant), “Opera,” Aug. 15, 17, 23, 1661; “Duke’s,” April 18,
20, 1667; Jan. 18, 1668–69.
Women pleased (Beaumont and Fletcher), “Duke’s,” Dec. 26, 1668.
Worse and Worse (G. Digby, Earl of Bristol), “Duke’s,” July 20, 1664.
[Illustration: Decoration]
INDEX.
_The titles of Chapters are printed in italics._
PAGE
Admiral, 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
FOOTNOTES:
[411] The charge was not so frivolous after all, for the writer of
an article on the “Diary” in the “Edinburgh Review” for July, 1880,
points out that although Pepys denied publicly that he ever possessed a
crucifix, he positively states in the “Diary” that he had one. See July
20, August 2, and November 3, 1666. I ought to have noted this, as the
facts are given in the Index to the “Diary.”
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Transcriber’s note:
The illustrations which were included as plates in the original have
been moved near to the text they illustrate. The five portraits of
court ladies did not have captions in the original, their names have
been included by the transcriber as a description of the illustration.
Footnotes have been moved to the end of chapters.
Variant spelling, inconsistent hyphenation and irregular punctuation
are retained, but, in a few cases, missing punctuation has been added
for consistency, e.g. after abbreviations, and to match quotation marks.
On page 109 the date on which Pepys first notices signs of the plague
was originally printed as the 7th of June, 1667; the year has been
changed to 1665.
In the index the page number (31) for the entry “Pepys thinks of
writing a history of the Dutch war” has been added.