Martin, Betty see Lane, Betty
Marvell, Andrew 9, 70–73, 262
Directions to a Painter for Describing our Naval Business192, 193
Mary, Princess, mother of William III 13, 114, 448n
Mary, queen of Scots 357
Mary II, Queen 347, 350, 365, 448n
Mary Tudor, Queen 313
Massinger, Philip see Dekker, Thomas
Masson, David 441n
Matt (maid) 276
Matthews, John (cousin of SP) xxvii, 327, 370, 379, 443n, 450n
Matthews, William 385, 418n, 458n
May, Dame Mary 433n
Mazarin, Cardinal 65
Medway, Dutch attack on (1667) xxxvi, 180, 189, 190, 221, 265, 285, 348, 423n
Mennes, Sir John (comptroller of the navy) xxvii, 156, 175
naval career 134
a literary man 134, 137, 397n, 412n
SP’s opinion of 137
SP criticizes 142–3
and the Dutch attack on the Medway 189
comments on Charles Sedley 207
and the Dutch prize ships 216
SP seeks to succeed him 293
death 287
Mercer, Mary (companion to EP) xxvii, 177, 190, 283
recommended by Will Hewer 168
SP charmed by 168
cross-dressing 188
SP harasses 208, 238
Elizabeth dismisses 230
accompanies the Pepys family on
outings 247, 270, 271
Barker succeeds 417n
Merchant Taylors’ Hall, City of
London 5
Meriton, Thomas 44
Michell, Betty (née Howlett) xxvii, 189, 210–14, 227, 275, 290
Michell, Elizabeth 213, 290
Michell, Michael 210–14, 227, 290
Middle Temple 4, 12
Middleton, Sir Charles 382
Middleton, Colonel Thomas 412n
Miles’s Coffee House, New Palace Yard 47
Mills, Revd Daniel xxvii, 283, 284, 330
Milo, David 355
Milton, John xxvii, 7, 15, 21, 28, 47–50, 56, 70, 72, 96, 311, 312, 386, 440n, 441n
Defensio Secunda45
Paradise Lost74, 192, 441n
‘When the assault was intended to the city’ 16
Mingo (black domestic servant) 125, 149
Minster Lovell 320
Moleyns, Dr 401n
Molière 153
Monck, George, duke of Albemarle xxvii, 73, 89, 90, 91, 97–101, 103, 105, 106, 110, 113, 124, 179, 182, 183, 185, 187, 188, 189, 200, 232, 261, 284, 295, 414n
Monmouth, James, duke of 35, 220, 362
Montagu, Anne see Edgcumbe, Lady Anne
Montagu, Catherine 128, 129
Montagu, Charles 129
Montagu, Edward, later earl of
Sandwich xxvii, 67, 78–9, 152–3, 164, 262, 280, 283, 288, 289
birth 11
education 12
military career 12, 17, 19, 23–6
marries Jemima Crew 12, 16
improvements to Hinchingbrooke 393n
relationship with Cromwell 24, 59, 65–6, 75, 402n
suppresses royalist gatherings 32
purged from parliament 33
and Charles I’s trial 34
appointed visitor to Oxford and Cambridge 36, 44
in the Barebones parliament 44–5
SP assists xxxvi, 45–6, 58, 61, 72, 74–5, 95, 98
lord president of the Council of State 45
Milton praises 45
naval career 55, 58–61, 65–6, 74, 76, 101, 126, 128, 130, 169, 170, 171, 173, 179, 181–6, 261, 293–4
accepts a peerage from Cromwell 61
and Richard Cromwell 71–4
character 75
and Charles Stuart 75, 76
his journal 83, 404n and
Charles II 75, 76, 79, 91, 108, 200
lies low at Hinchingbrooke 76, 96
elected to the Council of State 100
SP as his secretary at sea 101–9
master of the Wardrobe 110
re-enters House of Lords as Lord
Sandwich 112
and religion 113–14
regicide trials 114–15, 116
and the restoration of the Stuarts 118
and slavery 125, 180, 410n
and the Navy Board 133
and Betty Becke 156–7, 159–61
solicits Elizabeth to be his mistress 161, 245, 272
in the Second Dutch war 181–6, 216
ambassador to Spain 184, 185, 225, 270, 307
tells letter-kissing story 216
a Royal Society founder member 254, 400n
conversational style 264
melancholy state of mind 293–4, 435–6n
recommends Tangier as naval base 335
love of music 369
death and funeral 295
will 295–6
Montagu, Edward (Ned; later Lord Hinchingbrooke) 42, 97, 106, 107, 379, 419–20n
Montagu, Elizabeth see Pickering, Lady Elizabeth
Montagu, Hon. James 416n
Montagu, Jemima see Carteret, Jemima
Montagu, Jemima (née Crew; later Lady Sandwich) xxvii, 46, 58, 97, 115, 150, 207, 283, 386, 400n
personality 12, 126, 296
marries Edward 12, 16
in charge of the household at Hinchingbrooke 19, 21, 30, 126, 296
relationship with SP 21–2, 42, 74, 99, 126–30, 270, 296, 403n
children 25, 42, 45, 55, 126, 128, 129, 130, 160, 296
appearance 126
and Elizabeth Pepys 128, 129, 157, 158, 214
Jemima’s wedding 170, 171, 172
Greenwich visit 220, 362
SP never quotes directly 264
and Sandwich’s death 295, 296
buried at Calstock 334, 436n
Montagu, John 55, 129, 308, 379
Montagu, Oliver 55, 129, 308
Montagu, Paulina 42, 283
Montagu, Lady Paulina (née Pepys; SP’s great-aunt) 11, 12
Montagu (ship) 337
Montagu, Sir Sidney 11, 12, 19, 24, 114
Montagu, Sidney 42
Montagu family 20, 24, 52, 69
Montaigne 81, 385, 404n
Moone (secretary to Lord Belasyse) 229
Moore, Henry 158, 159, 160
Moorfields 231
riots (1648) 31
plague pits (1665) 174
Moray, Sir Robert 255
Mordaunt, Lady Betty xxviii, 292–3, 309, 321, 323, 327, 331–2, 333, 357, 435n
Morelli, Cesare xxviii, 302, 304, 315–16, 318, 324, 329, 332, 438n, 442n, 444n
Morland, Samuel, later Sir Samuel xxviii, 75, 304, 355n
SP’s tutor 36, 39
and the Vaudois Protestants 50
in the intelligence service 66
at Cromwell’s funeral 73
knighthood 106, 407n and Vane 413n
Morley, Herbert 76
Morris, Christopher 416n
Mount Edgcumbe 334
Mount, Jeremiah 98
Mulliner, Goody 39
Murray, John 383, 384
Myngs, Sir Christopher xxviii, 182, 186, 359, 420n
Nan (Penns’ maid) 191, 208
Naseby, battle of 25, 85, 110, 141
Naseby (later Royal Charles; ship) 50, 55, 58, 65–6, 75, 97, 104, 108, 111, 128, 134, 176, 207
National Portrait Gallery 433n
Navy Board/Office 110–11, 113, 120, 121, 123, 124, 133–44, 147–8, 149, 155, 171, 188, 189, 190, 193, 197, 207, 221, 230, 247, 249, 257, 263, 265, 270, 280, 281–2, 284, 286, 287, 288, 291, 293, 298, 303, 304, 308, 330, 350, 379, 413n
premises 111, 133–4, 174, 177, 297, 298, 436n
Navy List 337
Naylor, James 58–9
Neville, Revd and Hon. George 382
Neville, Henry 406n
Neville, Richard see Braybrooke, Lord
Neville Grenville, Hon. George 384<
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New Model Army 25, 29, 36
occupies London 29, 32–3
Newgate Prison 316
Newington Green 9
Newmarket 316, 323, 324, 331
Newton, Isaac, later Sir Isaac xxviii, 71, 197, 252, 253, 256, 257, 359, 363–4
Principia Mathematica252, 257, 429n
Newton, Samuel xxviii, 363–5
Nicholson, John (student at Magdalene) 42
Nicolson, William, bishop of Carlisle 372–3, 457n
Nijmegen 312
Noble, John 166, 167
nonjurors 350, 379
Nonsuch Palace 176
Nore 189
Northamptonshire 30, 291
Northumberland (ship) 304
Norton, Joyce 239, 241, 426n
Norton, Sir Daniel 389n
Nottingham 15
Nuns’ Meadows, near Huntingdon 22
Oates, Titus xxviii, 314, 316, 320
Obscene Publications Act 460n
Okey, Colonel John 28, 117–18
Old Bailey 77, 78, 361, 433n
Oldenburg, Henry 190
Ollard, Richard 285, 441n, 455n
Oxford 170, 330
Oxford University 36, 67, 372, 379
Palmer family 57
Paris
Mary Skinner plans to visit 368
SP and EP’s visit of 1669 280–81, 321
Parker, Archbishop Matthew 375, 457n
Parker, William Riley 440n
Parson’s Green 292, 329
Payne, Nell (cookmaid) 191, 208, 423n
Peachell, Dr John 343, 446–7n
Pearse, Elizabeth 97–8, 107, 198, 234, 290
Pearse, James xxviii, 97, 160, 207, 217, 234, 254, 290, 331, 351
Pelletier, M. 321
Pembleton, Mr (dancing master) 151–5, 156, 157, 161
Penn, Granville 384
Penn, Lady 261
Penn, Pegg 125, 143–4, 188, 191, 209
Penn, Admiral Sir William xxviii, 106, 123–6, 134, 137–8, 139, 141, 142, 143, 179, 193, 230, 232, 287, 337, 384, 409n, 414n
Penn, William, the younger 125, 345, 379, 410n
Penn family 149, 155, 245
Pennsylvania 125
Penny, George 251
Pepys, Anne (née Walpole; wife of John Pepys of Ashtead) 10, 390n
Pepys, Anne (previously Trice; wife of
Robert Pepys) 392n
Pepys, Barbara see Gale, Barbara
Pepys, Charles (joiner; SP’s cousin) 131
Pepys, Edward 397n
Pepys, Elizabeth (née de St Michel; SP’s wife) XXX,69, 78, 79, 98, 99, 109, 115–16, 126, 138, 141, 167, 190, 354, 386
birth 56–6, 399n
SP woos and marries her 50, 51–4
appearance 52, 156, 198, 204, 284, 289
background 52
in an Ursuline convent 57
personality 54, 55, 57, 198, 200, 214–15
health 54–5, 159, 201, 202–3, 210, 399n
relationship with SP xxxviii, 55, 168, 169, 195–206, 264, 332
walks out on SP 56, 149
and Catholicism 57, 283, 300, 400n, 432n
returns to SP 61
and the Diary 82
periods 78, 89, 90, 149, 203
and SP’s will xxxiv, 103
and Will Hewer 122
and SP’s system of moral accounting 123
Lord Sandwich notices her 127
Lady Sandwich’s fondness for 128, 129, 157, 158, 215
SP’s jealousy 149–55, 177
quarrels with SP (January 1663) xxxiii–xxxv, 150, 398n
Sandwich solicits her to be his
mistress 161, 245, 272
in Woolwich during the plague year 170, 172
and Luellin 177, 417–18n
Wight incident 204, 296–7
and the great fire 229, 230–33, 247
and Wayneman 245
Jane Birch’s marriage 249
and SP’s special language 266–7
and Deb Willet 269–76, 432n
holiday in France 280–81
flirts with Sheeres 275
final illness and death 281–3
funeral 283–4
monument 284, 378, 398n
Pepys, Esther (SP’s sister) 6
Pepys, Jacob (SP’s brother) 6
Pepys, Jane (SP’s cousin) see Turner, Jane
Pepys, John, of Ashtead (SP’s cousin) xxix, 10, 15, 238, 241, 390n, 397
Pepys, John (SP’s brother; born 1641) 163, 199, 205
birth 8
education 28, 98, 100
and SP’s will 103
and Elizabeth’s rudeness 158, 198
and the great fire 232
lives with the Jacksons 288, 433n
Trinity House post 288
death (1677) 304
Pepys, John (SP’s brother; died 1639) 6, 8
Pepys, John (SP’s father) xxviii, 9, 150, 163, 164, 288
apprenticed 7
tailoring business 3, 10, 17, 27, 28, 321
musicality 4
in Holland 17, 391n
at Huntingdon 23
and SP’s surgery 62
pesters SP for a job 113
lives with Pall 132
portrait by Hayls 186
and Elizabeth’s behaviour 198, 199, 421–2n
and the great fire 234
and Wayneman 245
and Wight’s estate 297
lives with the Jacksons 305, 433n
Pepys, Margaret (née Kite; SP’s mother) 7, 89, 103, 113, 150, 163
laundrymaid 6, 17, 355
pregnancies 6
health 9, 65
and religion 14, 390n
and the great plague 169–70, 416n
death 163–4
Pepys, Mary (SP’s sister) 4, 8
Pepys, Paulina (Pall; SP’s sister) see Jackson, Paulina
Pepys, Paulina (SP’s sister; died before he was born) 6
Pepys, Richard (SP’s cousin) xxix, 28
Pepys, Sir Richard (SP’s uncle; lord chief justice of Ireland) 28, 46
Pepys, Robert (SP’s brother) 6
Pepys, Robert (SP’s uncle of Brampton) xxix, 12, 126, 390n, 392n
SP’s visits 19–20, 42
SP as heir 20, 98, 102, 103, 123
angered by nephew John 98
bailiff to Montagu 392n
death 131, 162
Pepys, Roger (of Impington, son of Talbot; SP’s uncle) 99, 131, 240, 241, 249, 259, 271, 290, 352, 379, 441n, 449n
Pepys, Samuel
birth (23
February 1633) 3, 4, 6
childhood 4, 7–13, 16–17
health 8–9, 16, 29, 42–3, 44, 52, 54, 55, 61–5, 81, 87, 88, 89, 130, 157, 211, 239, 305–6, 352, 357, 359, 365, 367–8, 371–2, 374, 385, 410–11n, 455n
at Durdans 10
influences on 16, 28
sent out of town to avoid the plague 18
at school xxxvi, 19, 20–21, 26–9, 34–5, 37, 394n
visits his uncle Robert 19–20
his uncle’s heir 20, 98, 102, 103, 123
relationship with Jemima Montagu 21–2, 42, 74, 99, 126–30, 270,
296, 403n and
puritanism 30, 206, 207
and Charles I’s execution 14, 34, 35, 315, 385
appearance 38, 395n at
Cambridge xxxvi, 28, 35–7, 38–44, 80, 125, 176
literary ambition 40
assists Edward Montagu xxxvi, 45–6, 58, 61, 72, 74–5, 95, 98
Exchequer clerkship under Downing 46, 48, 58, 68, 95, 103, 110–11
‘clubbing’ 46–7, 69
marries Elizabeth 50, 51–4
relationship with Elizabeth xxxviii, 55, 168, 169, 195–6, 197–205, 206, 264, 332
failure to father children 55, 203–5, 304–5, 386, 422n
finds his own métier as a writer 77
his faith 88–9, 300, 301, 370, 390n, 435n
makes ciphers 95, 96, 98
at Rota club 96, 97
financial problems 97
as Montagu’s secretary at sea 101–9
his will xxxiv, 103, 174, 373, 374–5, 411n, 448n
and Charles Stuart’s return 106–7
at the Navy Board 110–11, 133–44, 147–8, 151, 154–5, 169, 171, 193, 197, 270, 287–9
Privy Seal post 113, 141
Seething Lane as the centre of his life 119
system of moral accounting 123
justice of the peace 123, 409n new status 123
and slavery 125, 180, 410n, 418n
Pegg Penn episode 143–42
Royal Society fellowship 144, 170, 252, 254–7
Tangier Committee treasurer 144, 145–6, 147, 169, 170, 186, 319, 348
surveyor general of victualling for the navy 145, 170, 183, 184, 304
appointed first secretary to the Admiralty (1673) 145, 216, 298, 299, 319
shameful treatment of Povey 145–7, 304
quarrels with Elizabeth (January 1663) xxxiii–xxxv, 150, 398n
and Lord Sandwich’s affair 158–61, 206
and death 162–6
rejects Tom’s child 167, 206
enjoys his plague year (1665) 170–71
first-known purpose-built bookcases
187, 420n cross-dressing 188
as a speaker 27, 193, 302, 303, 304
periwigs 196–7
the great fire 227–35
and Deb Willet 269–76, 432n
eyesight problems 270, 279–80
holiday in France 280–81
Brooke House Committee 281–2, 284–7, 386
Elizabeth’s final illness, death and
funeral 281–4
quick to recover from grief 289–90
visits Tangier (1683) 292, 296, 333–8, 339, 347
and Sandwich’s death 295–6
losses in the Seething Lane fire 297
enters parliament 298, 299
and education 303
honours 303–4, 340
diet 305
meets Mary Skinner 308
Mary his companion for thirty-three years 310
loyalty to the duke of York 315, 318, 341, 350, 352, 385
long political journey 315
accused of piracy, popery and treachery 318
short stay in the Tower 319
visits Scotland 331, 333
president of the Royal Society 340
James II’s coronation 342
MP for Harwich 342
resignations 350, 353
arrested (1689 and 1690) 353, 355–6
cleared of the charges against him 356
highway robbery 361
Freedom of the City (1699) 366
optics experiments 368–9, 455n
his faith 369–70
death 376–7
autopsy 378, 458n
funeral 251, 378–9
compared with Evelyn 383
personality
ambition 145
careful with his money 130, 293
efficiency 147–8, 165, 174
energy 145, 170, 172; 285
humanist 214
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