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humour xxxviii, 88
jealousy 142, 149–55, 177, 196, 275, 418n
lechery 207–14
liar 146, 214, 287, 437n
love of music 5, 41, 42, 51, 69, 74, 87, 99, 103, 149, 151, 152, 156, 170, 176, 187, 217, 239, 247, 302, 369, 396–7n
love of the theatre 5, 31, 87, 133, 135–6, 197, 217, 411n
malice 142
meanness 199
religious tolerance 99, 234–5
scepticism 86, 214, 217
sociability 290
streetwise 86
temper 55, 115–16
work
Diary
start of 80–81, 88–90
the nature of SP’s record xxxv–xxxvi, 81, 83–4, 86–8
described 80, 81–2
and his career xxxvi–xxxvii
and posterity xxxviii–xxxix
SP’s decision to preserve it xxxix
shorthand 40, 41, 82
money an obsessive theme 87
compared to Chaucer 88
bowdlerized 383, 405n
first set-piece 99–100
war coverage 179
prudence ν sexual impulses 205–6
describes his sexual behaviour 207–14
the most famous piece of reportage in 228
language 258, 265–8
use of direct speech 260–64
first published 384–5
volumes renumbered 360, 453n dates 388n
end of Diary xxxvii–xxxviii, 279
journal of 1680 xxxviii, 387n
‘Love a Cheate’ 40, 326
Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England xxxvii, 357–8, 370, 451–211
‘Mornamont’ 326, 327, 333, 387n ‘Navy White Book’ 191, 420n, 447n
Tangier Diary xxxviii, 334–6, 384, 387n, 436n
Pepys, Sarah (SP’s sister) 6, 7, 8
Pepys, Talbot (Roger’s son) 249
Pepys, Talbot (SP’s great-uncle) xxix, 36, 43, 99, 131, 395n
Pepys, Thomas 390n
Pepys, Tom (SP’s brother) 97, 131, 157, 163, 188, 232, 261, 387n
birth (1634) 6
childhood 7, 8, 9
speech impediment 8, 28, 164, 389n
aptitude for French 28, 394n
apprenticeship 29
takes over father’s tailoring business 131, 164, 392n
and Pall 164
his child out of wedlock 166–7, 206, 248
illness and death 164–5, 166, 239, 240, 260, 282, 283, 394n
burial 263, 390n
Pepys Association 392n
Pepys family 54
Percy, Thomas: Reliques of Ancient
Poetry357
periwigs 196–7, 421n
Peters, Hugh 114
Pett, Peter xxix, 134, 139, 184, 189, 190, 193, 287, 413n
Pett family xxix, 134
Petty, Sir William xxix, 96, 252, 253, 254, 255, 256, 345–6, 370, 400n, 445n
‘Dialogue on Liberty of Conscience’ 345
Phillips, Edward (Milton’s nephew) 48, 49, 397n
The Mysteries of Loue and Eloquence; or, the Arts of Wooing and Complementing48–9
Phillips, John 7, 397n
Pickering, Edward 107
Pickering, Elizabeth see Creed, Elizabeth
Pickering, Sir Gilbert xxix, 12, 24, 44, 45, 48, 59, 72, 108, 109, 206, 396n
Pickering, John (brother of Gilbert) 25
plague 18, 167
see also great plague
Popish Plot (1678) 235, 314–17, 332
Portholme Meadow, near Huntingdon 22, 23
Portsmouth 134, 138, 142, 168, 257, 303, 333, 334, 339
Povey, Thomas xxix, 144, 145–7, 158, 179, 207, 240, 254, 256, 280, 290, 304, 324
Powell, John 44
Preston 32
Pride, Colonel Thomas 33, 50
‘Pride’s Purge’ 3 3
Prior, Matthew 450n
Privy Council 225
Privy Seal Office 113, 141
Protestantism, Protestants 14, 50, 86, 105, 291, 301, 314, 317, 318, 352, 370, 448n
Proust, Marcel 163, 386
Contre Sainte-Beuve v
Prynne, William 13, no
Pudding Lane, London 227
puritanism, puritans 14, 27, 29, 30, 31, 41–2, 90, 92, 114, 118, 126, 206, 207, 259, 263, 267
Quakers 99, 125, 137, 179, 263–4, 410n
Quarles, Francis: Emblems98
Quarterly Review382
Queen’s Chapel 5
Radcliffe, Dr John xxix, 368
Ramsey Abbey 22
Ravensbourne River 138
Rawlinson, Richard 381
republicanism 90–92
Resolution (ship) 304
Restoration 216, 217, 262, 315, 342
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes 446n
Reynolds, Mayor 35
Richard (later James; ship) 108
Richmond, duchess of see Stuart,
Frances Richmond, Surrey 369
Ridley, Captain Hugh 350
rioting 29, 31, 32, 77–8
Robinson, Lady 262
Rochester, John Wilmot, 2nd earl of 149
Rochester, Lawrence Hyde, Lord 328, 346, 441n
Rose Inn, Cambridge 270
Rota Club 96, 97, 100, 406n
Rotherhithe (Redriff) 138, 139, 178, 248, 288
Rotterdam 312
Rousseau, Jean-Jacques 385
Royal Africa Company 179, 180, 410n
Royal Charles (ship) 180, 185, 189, 190
Royal Exchange 340
Royal James (ship) 189, 294
royal navy
SP’s role xxxvi, 147–8
SP’s history xxxvii, 358–9, 369, 451–211
and finance 70, 105, 139–40, 148, 169, 180, 188, 260, 285, 288–9, 291, 302
Cromwellian navy 135, 286
size of the fleet 140, 413n, 452n
Coventry on 262
and papist infiltration 315
reform 344
triumph at La Hogue 359–60
Gibson’s memo 438n
Royal Society 96, 144, 170, 179, 187, 234, 252–8, 289, 290, 303, 304, 340, 345, 353, 357, 359, 362, 372, 378, 379, 400n, 429n
Royal Sovereign (ship) 128
Rummer Tavern, Charing Cross 361
‘Rump’ parliament 33, 90, 91, 95, 99, 103, 104, 259
Rupert, Prince xxix–xxx, 12, 16, 23, 25, 106, 134, 179, 181, 184, 185, 187, 188, 261, 299, 303, 391n
Sadler, John 36
St Andrew’s Church, Chesterton 42
St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre 313
St Bride’s Church, Fleet Street 3, 4, 232, 263, 390n, 426n
SP baptized 6, 232
Margaret Pepys attends 14
burnt in the great fire 232
Wren’s rebuilding of 234
parish records 3 89n
St Dunstan’s Church 423n
St Etheldreda’s Church, Hatfield 307, 381, 439n, 459n
St Germain 356
St James’s Palace, London 6, 26, 32, 346
St James’s Park 99, 225
St John, Lord Chief Justice Oliver 43, 106, 393n
St John’s College, Cambridge 38, 270
St Margaret’s, Westminster 12, 53, 314
St Michel, Alexandre le Marchant de (SP’s father-in-law) 52, 56–8, 175, 190, 283, 296, 298
St Michel, Balthasar de (SP’s brother-in-law) XXX,199, 233, 351
his father’s story 56
birth 56–7, 399n
an irritant to SP 98, 109, 113, 355, 359
request to Montagu 106
discovers Mary Ashwell 150
Albemarle agrees to employ him 183
visits Hayls’s studio 186
his parents live with him at Deptford 420n
bond with Elizabeth 215
at Deal 250, 295, 296
supports SP’s claim to be a good
Anglican 301
visits France with SP and EP
281
efforts in Paris on SP’s behalf 319, 321.322
his family stay at Buckingham Street 320, 323
posting to Tangier 328, 334
installed in Treasurer’s House at
Deptford 344, 447n death of his wife in childbirth 344
remarries 354
SP asks for a pension for him 374
mourning ring from SP 379
St Michel, Dorothea de (née Kingsmill; SP’s mother-in-law) 56, 190, 283, 296
St Michel, Elizabeth de see Pepys, Elizabeth
St Michel, Esther de (SP’s sister-in-law) 180, 233, 328, 329, 402n, 418n
St Michel, ‘Litell Samuell’ 296, 354–5
St Michel, Mary de 379
St Michel family 54, 296, 328
St Neots 32
St Olave’s Church 154, 177–8, 234, 283, 306, 308, 310, 319, 378, 439n, 440n, 444n
St Paul’s Cathedral 3, 26, 29, 35, 78, 232, 233, 281
St Paul’s School, London xxxvi, 21, 26–9, 31, 34–5, 37, 98, 232, 290–91, 394n, 414n, 441n
St Saviour’s Dock 17
Salisbury 170, 348
Salisbury Court, off Fleet Street, London 3, 4–5, 7, 10, 11, 28, 36, 40, 41, 62, 84, 98, 100, 120, 131, 164, 165, 232, 234, 238, 239, 387n
Samford, Sam 69
Samuel Pepys Club 448n
Sandwich, Earl of see Montagu, Edward
Sandwich, Lady see Montagu, Jemima
Sandwich family 382, 393n
Sankey, Clement 44
Saunders family 42
Savile, Henry 295
Sawyer, Robert 44, 387n
Scarborough, Dr Charles 253, 254
Schelling 188
Scobell, Dick 69
Scobell, Henry 48, 73
Scotland, SP’s coastal voyage to 142
Scott, Colonel John xxx, 318, 321, 322, 325–6, 332
Scott, Thomas 407n
Scott, Sir Walter 383–4
Scottish army 32
Scrope, Adrian 407n
Second Civil War 32–3
Second World War 284
Sedley, Sir Charles xxx, 207, 434n
Seething Lane, London xxxv, 111, 112, 119–21, 123, 129, 131, 133, 134, 145, 157, 165, 167, 172, 174, 177, 185, 189, 198, 201, 206, 211, 227, 229, 230, 231, 234, 240, 241, 245, 247, 281, 293, 297, 301, 308, 309, 403n, 408n, 435, 447n
Shadwell, Dr John (SP’s godson) 290, 368, 377, 378, 434n
Shadwell, Thomas xxx, 290, 434n
Shaftesbury, 1st earl of see Cooper, Anthony Ashley
Shakespeare, William 31, 191, 210, 260
Hamlet136
Othello153, 161
Twelfth Night 389n
Shallcross, Julia see Boteler, Julia
Shaw, Robin 69, 172
Sheeres, Henry, later Sir Henry xxx, 198, 275, 334–5, 348, 359, 379, 452n
Sheerness 189, 222
Shelton, Thomas 40–41, 82
Short Writing (later Tachygraphy)40, 381
Sherwyn, Richard xxx, 53, 123, 409–10n shorthand 40–41, 82, 122, 178, 327, 360, 383, 396n, 404n, 407n, 420n
Shovell, Sir Clowdisley 359
Shrewsbury, countess of 262
Sidney, Algernon 75–6
Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge 408n
Simpson, Thomas 420n
Sir Popular Wisdom, or, the Politician313
Skinner, Bridget 440n
Skinner, Corbet xxx, 307, 381
Skinner, Cyriack 96, 440n
Skinner, Daniel xxx, 306, 308–9, 340, 440n, 444n, 458n
Skinner, Daniel, the younger xxx, 439n, 440–41n
at Trinity College, Cambridge 306, 311, 312, 317–18
asks for SP’s help in finding work 306, 311–13
meets SP 308
character 310, 311
and the Milton papers 311, 312, 440n
and Mary Skinner’s estate 3 80
Skinner, Edward 440n
Skinner, Elizabeth 307
Skinner, Frances see Buck, Lady Frances
Skinner, Frances (née Corbet) 306, 308–9, 310, 373, 439n
Skinner, Frederick 307
Skinner, Mary (SP’s mistress) xxx, 306–10, 311, 319, 322, 329, 355, 359, 363, 386, 439n, 440n, 458n
background 306
fostered at Woodhall 306
education 308
meets SP 308
moves into Buckingham Street 340
health 352, 362, 368
deals with demands on SP 354
and the highway robbery 361–2
as an artist 366, 454n
pass to travel to France 366–7, 454n
plans to visit Paris 368
deals with the household finances 374
in SP’s will 375–6
and SP’s death 376–7
SP’s funeral 379
her funeral and burial 381
her will 446n, 456n, 458–9n
Skinner, Obrian 307, 439n, 444n
Skinner, Peter xxx, 307, 355, 381
Skinner, Robert 307
Skinner, Sir Vincent 440n
Skinner, William (1594–1627) 440n
Skinner, William (born 1626) 440n
Skinner family xxx, 307–8, 310, 311, 320, 327
slavery 125, 179–80, 235, 410n, 418n
Slingsby, Sir Robert 134, 414n
Sloane, Hans, later Sir Hans xxx, 257, 362–3, 378
Smith, John 382–3, 384, 459n
Smith, Sydney 384
Smith, Dr Thomas xxxi, 356–7, 379, 457–8n
Sole Bay, battle of 294, 318, 430n
Southampton, 4th earl of see Wriothesley, Thomas
Southwell, Sir Robert, MP xxxi, 314, 441n
Spain, SP in 337–8
Spanish Armada 313
Spicer, Jack 69
Spithead 303
Stanhope, Dr George 454n
Star Tavern 99
Stationers’ Hall 233
Stephen, Leslie 385
Stephen, William: An Account of the Growth of Deism in England 456n
Stevenson, Robert Louis (1850–94) 214
Samuel Pepys v, 88, 384–5
Steward, Mrs 292–3, 357, 435n
Strafford, earl of 13
Strickland, Sir Roger 346, 347
Stuart, Frances, duchess of Richmond xxxi, 156
Sun Tavern 201
Surgeons’ Hall 64, 254
Susan (maid) 248
Swan Inn, Westminster 47, 169, 269
Swiftsure (ship) 103, 104
Symons, Will xxxi, 47, 48, 53, 69, 98, 100, 284–5
Tangier 142, 144, 146, 147, 188, 229, 275, 328
Mole (breakwater) 144, 147, 334, 335, 414n
SP visits 292, 296, 333–7, 347
Tangier Committee 144–7, 169, 170, 186, 261, 300, 335, 435n
Tanner, Joseph Robson xxxvi–xxxvii, 448n
Taylor, Elizabeth (infant daughter of
Tom Pepys) 166–7, 206
Taylor, Henry 429n
Taylor, Thomas 392n
Test Act (1673) 299, 346
Tewin, Hertfordshire 307, 454n
Thames River 3, 4, 14–15, 79, 91, 138, 144, 170, 172, 197, 229, 248, 295, 298, 337, 349, 351, 387n theatre 30–31, 49, 87
Thomson, Colonel George 286
Thornton Curtis, Lincolnshire 440n
Three Cranes Court, off Fleet Street,
London 6
Thurloe, John 59, 71, 73, 74, 75, 105, 407n
Times, The383
Tonbridge 171
Tooker, Frances xxxi, 185, 208, 275, 423n
Tooker, John 182, 185
Torbay, William lands at 348
Torrington, earl of see Herbert, Arthur
Tower of London 4, 10, 13, 15, 24, 31, 78, no, 118, 129, 190, 217, 225, 227, 255, 281, 319, 346, 356, 390n, 408n, 450n
trained bands 15, 16, 29, 31, 190
Treasury 176, 285, 358, 448n
Trinity College, Cambridge 38, 41, 270, 308, 311, 312, 317, 374, 375
Trinity Hall,
Cambridge 36, 457n
Trinity House, Water Lane 155–6, 288, 304, 345, 353, 364, 436n, 446n
Trumpet Inn, King Street 236
Tuke, Sir Samuel 282
Turkish navy 337
Turk’s Head Coffee House, New Palace Yard 96
Turner, Betty (Elizabeth Turner’s daughter) 426n
Turner, Betty (Jane’s daughter) 241, 426n
Turner, Elizabeth 426n
Turner, Jane (née Pepys; SP’s cousin) 131, 164, 165–6, 199, 232, 234, 238–41, 283, 292, 386, 390n, 426n, 435n
nurses SP in her house 62
Turner, John xxxi, 238–9, 241, 292, 425n
Turner, Theophila (‘The’; later Lady Harris) 199, 239–42, 249, 390n
Turner, Thomas 134
Turnham Green 12, 16, 26
Unthank, John (tailor) 270
Vane, Sir Henry 141, 413n
Vaudois Protestants, massacre of 50
Vauxhall, London 197, 323
Verdi, Giuseppe 210
Verney, Sir Ralph 396n
Vernon, James 379, 450n, 458n
Vernon, Mary (née Buck) 458n
Verrio, Antonio xxxi, 330–31, 373, 444n, 457n
Villiers, Barbara, countess of
Castlemaine, later duchess of Cleveland xxxi, 112, 128, 153, 193, 207, 218, 221, 223, 259, 260, 263
Villiers, George, 1st duke of
Buckingham 138
Villiers, George, 2nd duke of
Buckingham xxxi, 224–5, 256–7, 262–3, 318
Vines, Christopher xxxi Vines, Dick xxxi, 69
Vines, George xxxi, 69
Vines family xxxi, 69
Vyner, Sir Robert (banker) 291
Wade, Thomas 70
Waller, Edmund 59
Waller, Sir Hardress 407n, 408n
Wallington, Nehemiah 84
Wallis, Dr John xxxi, 252, 254, 372
Walthamstow 124, 125
Wanley, Humfrey xxxi, 363, 366, 457n, 458n
Wapping 139
Warren, Sir William xxxi, 139
Welsh, Jane xxxii, 169, 236–8
Welwyn, Hertfordshire 203
Westminster 67, 98, 174, 231
Westminster Abbey 61, 70, 72, 89, 135, 209, 236, 281, 284
Westminster Hall 33, 34, 35, 48, 57, 60, 76, 99, 117, 119, 201, 206, 210, 231, 275, 313, 346
Westminster Palace 67–8
Whalley, Major-General 111–12
Wheatley, Henry 405n
Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In385
Whig Party, Whigs 315, 336, 339, 379
Whitechapel 186, 187
Whitehall 4, 35, 45, 52, 58, 67, 68, 98, 113, 133, 160, 187, 228, 231, 312, 349, 365
Whitehall Palace 109, 200, 243, 365
Whitelocke, Bulstrode xxxii, 70
masque for the Court at Whitehall 4–5, 84
on the impending civil war 15
appointed visitor to Oxford and Cambridge 44
at Cromwell’s funeral 73
accused of corresponding with
Charles Stuart 74
diary 84, 101
delivers up the Great Seal 91