Pepys in a sentence

Editions of letters and other publications by Pepys *citation * Pepys, Samuel (1995) Robert Latham ed. Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War.

After the diary Samuel Pepys painted by Sir Godfrey Kneller in 1689 Pepys's health suffered from the long hours that he worked throughout the period of the diary.

Nevertheless, Pepys consulted surgeon Thomas Hollier and, on 26 March 1658, the operation took place in a bedroom in the house of Pepys' cousin Jane Turner.

Notably, the diarist and naval administrator Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) and his wife were both amateur players of the flageolet, and Pepys was later an amateur recorder player.

Other biographies include: Samuel Pepys : a life, by Stephen Coote (London : Hodder & Stoughton, 2000) and, Samuel Pepys and his world, by Geoffrey Trease (London : Thames and Hudson, 1972).

Pepys never remarried, but he did have a long-term housekeeper named Mary Skinner who was assumed by many of his contemporaries to be his mistress and sometimes referred to as Mrs. Pepys.

That is how the Edgeley family acquired the estates of both Samuel Pepys and Will Hewer, sister Anne inheriting Pepys' estate, and brother Hewer inheriting that of Will Hewer.

When John Jackson died in 1724, Pepys' estate reverted to Anne, daughter of Archdeacon Samuel Edgeley, niece of Will Hewer and sister of Hewer Edgeley, nephew and godson of Pepys' old Admiralty employee and friend Will Hewer.

We have a rich heritage of insightful diarists, stretching from Pepys and Boswell through to Alan Clark and Alan Bennett.

One of the accounts of it is in Samuel Pepys’ diary, who would write for days, as I recall, about, “Went to the privy council and then went and had my morning draft, and then…” sort of basic, boring logbook of the day.

The old folk custom, which dates back to May Days in the 1600s, was well documented by Samuel Pepys in his diaries in the context of milk maids carrying pails decorated with garlands.

Most famous of all, diarist Samuel Pepys lived in a house right next to the watergate in the latter half of the 17th century.

Samuel Pepys mentions about the very common and close encounters of the turd kind in 17th century Britain when throwing human waste out of the windows was a prevalent practice amongst the British households.

So Samuel Pepys had made an impression on her after all.

A cart arrived at 4 a.m. on 3 September and Pepys spent much of the day arranging the removal of his possessions.

According to his entry of 2 September 1666, Pepys recommended to the king that homes be pulled down in the path of the fire in order to stem its progress.

A detailed account of the Popish Plot and Pepys' involvement in it, 1679–1680.

After Pepys' death, the post-mortem examination showed his left kidney was completely ulcerated; seven stones, weighing four and a half ounces (130 g), also were found.

All of these editions omitted passages (chiefly about Pepys's sexual adventures) which the editors thought too obscene ever to be printed.

As he had done during the Fire and the Plague, Pepys again removed his wife and his gold from London.