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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

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by Claire Tomalin


  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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