Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepsyian Library, 1885, Vol. 3: With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke

The Diary of Samuel Pepys #3

by Samuel Pepys

Excerpt from Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys From His Ms. Cypher in the Pepsyian Library, 1885

Created Baron of Arlington 1663, and Viscount Thetford and Earl of Arlington, 1672: he was also k.g and Chamberlain to the King. Ob. 1685. His daughter and sole heir married the first Duke of Grafton.

367 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1906

About the author

Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.

The detailed private diary he kept during 1660–1669 was first published in the nineteenth century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London.

His surname is usually pronounced /'pi:ps/ ('peeps').