Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

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Wheatley Henry Benjamin. Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. PEPYS BEFORE THE DIARY

CHAPTER II. PEPYS IN THE “DIARY.”

CHAPTER III. PEPYS AFTER THE “DIARY.”

CHAPTER IV. TANGIER

CHAPTER V. PEPYS’S BOOKS AND COLLECTIONS

CHAPTER VI. LONDON

CHAPTER VII. PEPYS’S RELATIONS, FRIENDS, AND ACQUAINTANCES

CHAPTER VIII. THE NAVY

CHAPTER IX. THE COURT

CHAPTER X. PUBLIC CHARACTERS

CHAPTER XI. MANNERS

CHAPTER XII. AMUSEMENTS

CHAPTER XIII. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX

APPENDIX I. PORTRAITS OF SAMUEL PEPYS

ENGRAVINGS BY

PHOTOGRAPHS

BUST

APPENDIX II. THE SCHEMES OF ALEXANDER MARCHANT, SIEUR DE ST. MICHEL (MRS. PEPYS’S FATHER.)

APPENDIX III. PEPYS’S MANUSCRIPTS AT OXFORD

APPENDIX IV. MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

APPENDIX V. PEPYS’S CORRESPONDENTS

APPENDIX VI. LISTS

SECRETARIES OF THE ADMIRALTY,

TREASURERS OF THE NAVY,

COMPTROLLERS OF THE NAVY,

SURVEYORS OF THE NAVY,

CLERKS OF THE SHIPS, OF THE NAVY, OR OF THE ACTS,

COMMISSIONERS OF THE NAVY APPOINTED TO RESIDE AT CHATHAM,

APPENDIX VII. PLAYS WHICH PEPYS SAW ACTED

INDEX

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THIS little book does not need any long Preface, as the title sufficiently explains the object aimed at. Although the various subjects referred to in the “Diary” are annotated in the different editions, there is in none of these any complete analysis of the entire work or of the incidents of Pepys’s life.

I have endeavoured in the following pages to draw together some of the most interesting incidents of the “Diary” relating both to Pepys’s life and to the manners of his time, and also to illustrate them from other sources. I have used the best edition of the “Diary,” by the Rev. Mynors Bright; but in order that this book may form a companion to all editions I have referred to the date of the entries rather than to the volume and page. It must therefore be understood that the passages referred to when not met with in the other editions will be found among the hitherto unpublished matter of that of Mr. Bright. It has been my endeavour to illustrate the contents of this entertaining work more completely than has previously been attempted, and several of the circumstances of Pepys’s life are here brought prominently forward for the first time. I may add that the whole of the present volume was printed off before the appearance of the excellent article in the July number of the “Edinburgh Review” (1880), as otherwise it might be supposed that certain points had been suggested by that article. I have, however, availed myself of its pages to make a correction of a small matter in the Index.

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Lord Braybrooke, who first introduced the “Diary” to the public, had no very accurate notions of the duties of an editor; and he treated his manuscript in a very unsatisfactory manner. Large portions were omitted without explanation, and apparently without reason; and although much was added to succeeding editions, still the reader might well say—

The third edition, published in 1848, contained a large mass of restored passages, amounting, it is said, to not less than one-fourth of the entire work. Some fresh notes were added to the fourth edition, published in 1854; but no alteration of the text was made beyond “the correction of a few verbal errors and corrupt passages hitherto overlooked.” Subsequent editions have been mere reprints of these. In 1875 appeared the first volume of the Rev. Mynors Bright’s entirely new edition, with about one-third of matter never yet published, all of which was of the true Pepysian flavour. Here was a treat for the lovers of the “Diary” which they little expected.

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