Dining with Samuel Pepys in Seventeenth Century England

1944 ◽  
Vol 20 (7) ◽  
pp. 434-440
Author(s):  
MARGARET ALBERI FLYNN
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Samuel Pepys

Succession

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Hone
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Alexander Pope ◽  
Full Spectrum ◽  
Anne Finch ◽  
William Iii ◽  
Samuel Pepys

This chapter introduces and explores the full spectrum of positions on the succession across a range of texts responding to the deaths of William III and James II. It demonstrates the collapse of earlier norms of royal mourning by unearthing how royal elegy—a sacrosanct genre in the seventeenth century—became a vehicle for opposition satire. Anne Finch, Alexander Pope, Samuel Pepys, and William Pittis were all involved in writing or circulating Jacobite libels in manuscript. Examining the scribal circulation of satires sheds new light on their political allegiances and networks. The chapter ends with a sustained contextual examination of Daniel Defoe’s poem The Mock Mourners.

Serjeant Knight's Discourse on the Cross and Flags of St George (1678)

2001 ◽  
Vol 81 ◽  
pp. 351-390
Author(s):  
C S Knighton ◽  
Timothy Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Dominant Feature ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Cross ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Manuscript Copy ◽  
Samuel Pepys ◽  
Original Drawings

In January 1678 John Knight, the Serjeant Surgeon of Charles II, sent to Samuel Pepys a ‘Discourse containing the History of the Cross of St. George, and its becoming the Sole Distinction = Flag, Badge or Cognizance of England, by Sea and Land’. Knight argued that St George's cross should become the dominant feature in English flags and supported his argument with a history of the cross.A manuscript copy of this discourse, with Knight's original drawings, survives in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge, and is published here. A brief biography of Knight is presented and an account of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century controversies about St George. The latter was an issue which caused acrimony between Royalists and Puritans. An Appendix reconstructs Knight's library, principally consisting of books concerning heraldry, topography and history.

Samuel Pepys FRS (1633-1703) and The Royal Society

2003 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-13 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. J. W. Thrower
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Royal Society ◽  
Glorious Revolution ◽  
Charles I ◽  
The Glorious Revolution ◽  
Samuel Pepys

Born in London during the reign of Charles I, whose execution he witnessed, Samuel Pepys lived through the Interregnum, the Restoration of the Monarchy and the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He is known to later generations through his secret Diary, first published in 1825, in which he reported such events as the Plague and the Great Fire of London, and on everyday life in seventeenth-century England. But to his contemporaries he was admired as an extremely able administrator in the Admirality Office. Pepys was elected FRS on 15 February 1665; and during his presidency of The Royal Society (1684-86) Newton's Principia was published.

Pepys in Print, 1660–1703

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kate Loveman
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
News Reports ◽  
Private And Public ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Manuscript Publication ◽  
Samuel Pepys ◽  
Popish Plot

This article discusses the printed works produced by Samuel Pepys during his lifetime, along with significant references to him in print by his contemporaries. Pepys’s own print contributions ranged from news reports on Charles II’s Restoration to self-vindicating naval Memoires (1690). Having been the subject of a libel during the Popish Plot in 1679, Pepys was himself criticized for authoring libels as a result of his pamphlet campaign to reform Christ’s Hospital (1698–1699). Pepys’s strategic uses of publication media mean that following his career is a way to investigate the boundaries between print and manuscript publication in the late seventeenth century and examine the association of these media with concepts of private and public. Pepys’s uses of print also provide an important context for interpreting his intentions concerning the preservation and circulation of his diary of the 1660s, which was to remain unprinted until the nineteenth century.

Short-writing and the state of Newton’s Conscience, 1662

1963 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 10-16 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
John Locke ◽  
The State ◽  
Moral Life ◽  
Isaac Newton ◽  
Obvious Advantage ◽  
Samuel Pepys

In the middle of 1662 Isaac Newton schooled himself in a system of short- writing. In the middle of 1662 he went through a period of intense religious awareness. The two events were connected by more than chronological coincidence. Newton’s interest in shorthand was hardly unique as the number of systems devised and published in the seventeenth century suggests; indeed, the system he adopted, Thomas Shelton’s, went through more than twenty editions during the century. To the student, now well initiated in his career at Cambridge, shorthand offered the obvious advantage of economy both in time and in paper, and he employed it for that reason at least once. The condition of his notes, however, had less connexion with shorthand than the condition of his soul. Newton was undertaking an examination of his moral life, and for this shorthand offered an advantage transcending mere economy. Like Samuel Pepys and John Locke, he recognized that shorthand could serve as a rudimentary cypher to conceal thoughts that he wished to set down for his own edification alone.

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