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Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self

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by Claire Tomalin


  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

 

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