PEPYS

SAMUEL, %. 1632, d. 1703, secretary to the SSS ae in the reigns of Charles II. and James I, was educated at St. Paul’s School and at Cambridge. His kinsman, the Earl of octet! phe him a helping hand, and he soon fo sor 5 ment as clerk in the Admiralty. took a og! interest in the fashionable London life of his day, and wrote in shorthand a most quaint a his daily exporicnces, This diary, deciphered ut Cambridge, was published by Bray brook in 1825. Pepys was the only Admiralty official who remained at his post through the Great Plague, and his account of this calamity is supremely interesting. The diary treats of the ten years, 1659-69. PERCY, [s. 239]