what a stir Stankes makes, with his being crowded in the streets, and wearied in walking in London, and would not be wooed by my wife and Ashwell to go to a play, nor to White Hall, or to see the lions, though he was carried in a coach. and I for that reason like it, I find, the better, too; by Sir Positive At-all, I understand, is meant Sir Robert Howard. He believes all will come to ruin. The second volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. Review: "Samuel Pepys and the Stolen Diary" by M J Lee 19 August 2016 Review: "Samuel Pepys: Plague, Fire, Revolution" 9 February 2016 Review: 'The Invention of Improvement' by Paul Slack 29 January 2016 Review: 'Plague: Murder has a New Friend' by C.C. ; and then the several Bills, their titles were read, and the King’s assent signified in the proper terms, according to the nature of the Bills, of which about three or four were public Bills, and seven or eight private ones, the additional Bills for the building of the City and the Bill against Conventicles being none of them. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. He not only recorded his major infidelities and weaknesses; he put down all those little meannesses of thought and conduct of which all men are guilty but few admit, even to themselves. Thence to walk in the Hall, and there hear that Mrs. Martin’s child, my god-daughter, is dead, and so by water to the Old Swan, and thence home, and there a little at Sir W. Pen’s, and so to bed. While this is kind of them I don't ask for anything as the financial costs are negligible. Samuel Pepys is as much a paragon of literature as Chaucer and Shakespeare. The Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, published in the year 1817, is the first of the class of books to which special reference is here made. As those who have had the pleasure of reading Samuel Pepys’s diary will know, the hand that emerges from it does not do so gently, as Bennett imagines, but … Samuel Pepys PRS (/ p iː p s / PEEPS; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. I. Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Ad-miralty in the reigns of Charles II. But there happened one thing which vexed me, which is, that the orange-woman did come in the pit, and challenge me for twelve oranges, which she delivered by my order at a late play, at night, to give to some ladies in a box, which was wholly untrue, but yet she swore it to be true. After dinner my Lord and I together. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. His Diary is one of the principal sources for many aspects of the history of its period. The Commons having sent this morning, after their long debate therein the last night, to the Lords, that they do think the only expedient left to preserve unity between the two Houses is, that they do put a stop to any proceedings upon their late judgement against the East India Company, till their next meeting; to which the Lords returned answer that they would return answer to them by a messenger of their own, which they not presently doing, they were all inflamed, and thought it was only a trick, to keep them in suspense till the King come to adjourne them; and, so, rather than lose the opportunity of doing themselves right, they presently with great fury come to this vote: “That whoever should assist in the execution of the judgement of the Lords against the Company, should be held betrayers of the liberties of the people of England, and of the privileges of that House.” This the Lords had notice of, and were mad at it; and so continued debating without any design to yield to the Commons, till the King come in, and sent for the Commons, where the Speaker made a short but silly speech, about their giving Him 300,000l. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Lord Braybrooke added some passages as the various editions were published, but in the preface to his last edition he One of the more comical entries in his diary refers to a country cousin, named Stankes, who came to stay with him in London. Samuel Pepys 1633–1703 Background: Diary entry written in Pepys’s shorthand after starting his diary, Pepys be a clerk in the Royal Navy o and worked hard at roo out corruption and streamlining manag Acknowledged as right hand of the Navy,” in 1684 was appointed secretary of th Go to thinkcentral.com. The churches, houses, and all on fire and flaming at once; and a horrid noise the flames made, and the cracking of houses at their ruine. Thence by water to the New Exchange, where bought a pair of shoe-strings, and so to Mr. Pierces, where invited, and there was Knepp and Mrs. Foster and here dined, but a poor, sluttish dinner, as usual, and so I could not be heartily merry at it: here saw her girl’s picture, but it is mighty far short of her boy’s, and not like her neither; but it makes Hales’s picture of her boy appear a good picture. Above all, Pepys possessed the artist’s gift of being able to select the vital moment. The Plague Diaries of Samuel Pepys and Daniel Defoe: A Historical Overview; Gender Roles, Love, and … About noon comes to me my cousin Sarah, and my aunt Livett, newly come out of Gloucestershire, good woman, and come to see me; I took them home, and made them drink, but they would not stay dinner, I being alone. Pepys excluded nothing from his journal that seemed to him essential, however much it told against himself. Here was also Haynes, the incomparable dancer of the King’s house, and a seeming civil man, and sings pretty well, and they gone, we abroad to Marrowbone, and there walked in the garden, the first time I ever was there; and a pretty place it is, and here we eat and drank and stayed till 9 at night, and so home by moonshine … And so set Mrs. Knepp at her lodging, and so the rest, and I home talking with a great deal of pleasure, and so home to bed. 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. I have not seen her these 8 or 9 years, and she begins to grow old, I perceive, visibly. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. A new diary entry appears here at the end of each day. Because I run this site in my free time several people have asked how they can donate money. He is frank about his vanity—as, for example, in his account of the day he went to church for the first time in his new periwig: “I found that my coming in a perriwig did not prove so strange to the world as I was afeared it would, for I thought that all the church would presently have cast their eyes upon me, but I found no such thing”; about his meannesses over money, his jealousies, and his injustices—“Home and found all well, only myself somewhat vexed at my wife’s neglect in leaving her scarfe, waistcoat and night dressings in the coach today; though I confess she did give them to me to look after.” For he possessed in a unique degree the quality of complete honesty. But, Lord! But, whatever she said of his being rich, I do fear, by her doing this without my advice, it is not as it ought to be; but, as she brews, let her bake. With Peter Sallis, Susan Maryott, Alan Rowe, Diana Fairfax. One thing of familiarity I observed in my Lady Castlemayne: she called to one of her women, another that sat by this, for a little patch off her face, and put it into her mouth and wetted it, and so clapped it upon her own by the side of her mouth, I suppose she feeling a pimple rising there. 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. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. Thence called Knepp from the King’s house, where going in for her, the play being done, I did see Beck Marshall come dressed, off of the stage, and looks mighty fine, and pretty, and noble: and also Nell, in her boy’s clothes, mighty pretty. by Jessica Brain. Samuel Pepys kept a diary for almost ten years, from January 1660 to May 1669. the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public for nearly seventy Thence with Creed to Westminster Hall, and there met with cozen Roger, who tells me of the great conference this day between the Lords and Commons, about the business of the East India Company, as being one of the weightiest conferences that hath been, and managed as weightily. Samuel Pepys (Author) › Visit Amazon's Samuel Pepys Page. Up, and to the office, where all the morning we sat. Here we are told also that the House of Commons sat till five o’clock this morning, upon the business of the difference between the Lords and them, resolving to do something therein before they rise, to assert their privileges. ‘Here, in one of the finest feats in all the long history of scholarship, is Pepys’ Diary, once and for all. He never seemed to have a dull moment; he could not, indeed, understand dullness. Samuel Pepys’s Diary is often studied for its first-hand account of important events in London’s history. On the 23rd February 1633 Samuel Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, London. At noon home to dinner and Creed with me, and after dinner he and I to the Duke of York’s playhouse; and there coming late, he and I up to the balcony-box, where we find my Lady Castlemayne and several great ladies; and there we sat with them, and I saw “The Impertinents” once more, now three times, and the three only days it hath been acted. She begins to draw very well, and I think do as well, if not better, than my wife, if it be true that she do it herself, what she shews me, and so to bed, and my head akeing all night with the wine I drank to-day, and my eyes ill. (Lord’s day). Up, and to the office, and thence to White Hall, but come too late to see the Duke of York, with whom my business was, and so to Westminster Hall, where met with several people and talked with them, and among other things understand that my Lord St. John is meant by Mr. Woodcocke, in “The Impertinents.”1 Here met with Mrs. Washington, my old acquaintance of the Hall, whose husband has a place in the Excise at Windsor, and it seems lives well. I am heartily sorry I was not there, it being upon a mighty point of the privileges of the subjects of England, in regard to the authority of the House of Lords, and their being condemned by them as the Supreme Court, which, we say, ought not to be, but by appeal from other Courts. Here we are told also that last night the Duchesse of Monmouth, dancing at her lodgings, hath sprained her thigh. E. Thompson, vol. Begun in January 1660 and finishing in May 1669, it offers a richly detailed account of some of the most turbulent events of the nation’s history, including the coronation of King Charles II, the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. their confidence! God preserve us all.” Pepys continued to live his life normally until the … Although the Diary of Samuel Pepys has been in the hands of the public for nearly seventy years, it has not hitherto appeared in its entirety. So the Commons went to their House, and forthwith adjourned; and the Lords resumed their House, the King being gone, and sat an hour or two after, but what they did, I cannot tell; but every body expected they would commit Sir Andrew Rickard, Sir Samuel Barnardiston, Mr. Boone, and Mr. Wynne, who were all there, and called in, upon their knees, to the bar of the House; and Sir John Robinson I left there, endeavouring to prevent their being committed to the Tower, lest he should thereby be forced to deny their order, because of this vote of the Commons, whereof he is one, which is an odde case.1 Thence I to the Rose Taverne in Covent Garden, and there sent for a pullet and dined all alone, being to meet Sir W. Pen, who by and by come, and he and I into the King’s house, and there “The Mayd’s Tragedy,” a good play, but Knepp not there; and my head and eyes out of order, the first from my drinking wine at dinner, and the other from my much work in the morning. And to see the folly how the house do this day cry up the play more than yesterday! So I at noon by water to Westminster, and there find the King hath waited in the Prince’s chamber these two hours, and the Houses are not ready for him. LibriVox recording of The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1663 by Samuel Pepys. And yet it vexes me though, and the more because it brings into my head some apprehensions what trouble I may here after be brought to when my Lord comes home, if he should ask me to come into bonds with him, as I fear he will have occasions to make money, but I hope I shall have the wit to deny it. Written in Thomas Shelton’s system of shorthand, or tachygraphy, with the names in longhand, it extends to 1,250,000 words, filling six quarto volumes in the Pepys Library. The Diary of Samuel Pepys is probably the most famous diary in the English language. Here took up Knepp into our coach, and all of us with her to her lodgings, and thither comes Bannister with a song of hers, that he hath set in Sir Charles Sidly’s play for her, which is, I think, but very meanly set; but this he did, before us, teach her, and it being but a slight, silly, short ayre, she learnt it presently. The King did make a short, silly speech, which he read, giving them thanks for the money, which now, he said, he did believe would be sufficient, because there was peace between his neighbours, which was a kind of a slur, methought, to the Commons; and that he was sorry for what he heard of difference between the two Houses, but that he hoped their recesse would put them into a way of accommodation; and so adjourned them to the 9th of August, and then recollected himself, and told them the 11th; so imperfect a speaker he is. Towards noon I to Westminster and there understand that the Lords’ House did sit till eleven o’clock last night, about the business in difference between them and the Commons, in the matter of the East India Company. 1 Daily entries from the 17th century London diary This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. He makes us see what he sees in a flash: his Aunt James, “a poor, religious, well-meaning, good soul, talking of nothing but God Almighty, and that with so much innocence that mightily pleased me”; and his sister Pall, “a pretty, good-bodied woman and not over thick, as I thought she would have been, but full of freckles and not handsome in the face.” He could describe with wonderful vividness a great scene: as, for example, the day General George Monck’s soldiers unexpectedly marched into a sullen City and proclaimed there should be a free Parliament—“And Bow bells and all the bells in all the churches as we went home were a-ringing; it was past imagination, both the greatness and suddenness of it.” He described, too, the Restoration and coronation; the horrors of the Plague; and the Fire of London, writing down his account—so strong was the artist in him—even as his home and its treasures were being threatened with destruction: We saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side of the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. iii., p. 405.—B. One can open it on any page and lose oneself in the life of Charles II’s London, and of this vigorous, curious, hardworking, pleasure-loving man. Humphreys 31 August 2014 Sunday Lunch with Mr and Mrs Pepys They being gone, I to dinner with Balty and his wife, who is come to town to-day from Deptford to see us, and after dinner I out and took a coach, and called Mercer, and she and I to the Duke of York’s playhouse, and there saw “The Tempest,” and between two acts, I went out to Mr. Harris, and got him to repeat to me the words of the Echo, while I writ them down, having tried in the play to have wrote them; but, when I had done it, having done it without looking upon my paper, I find I could not read the blacklead. The Duke of York himself said that of his playing at trap-ball is true, and told several other stories of him. Read in English by Nicole Lee Another jam-packed year for Pepys, making provisions for Tangier, indulging his passion for the theatre, always thoroughly engaged in his relationships with his wife and family, pursuing his foundational work for the Royal Navy, and displaying his hard-headed focus on money and his accounts. Up, and all the morning at the office. But, however, I did deny it, and did not pay her; but, for quiet, did buy 4s. Pepys had been looking forward to showing him the sights of the town—. ]— had it in her thoughts, if she had occasion, to, borrow 100l. And he tells me that the Commons had much the better of them, in reason and history there quoted, and believes the Lords will let it fall. of me, which I did not declare any opposition to, though I doubt it will be so much lost. By signing up for this email, you are agreeing to news, offers, and information from Encyclopaedia Britannica. Join the Pepys’ Diary email discussion group, Follow in real time on Twitter or on Mastodon, Review: "Walking Pepys's London" by Jacky Colliss Harvey. The third volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition. Be on the lookout for your Britannica newsletter to get trusted stories delivered right to your inbox. Pepys records information on the Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy, the Plague, and the Great Fire of London, and readers are able to gain a greater understanding of this tumultuous time period through his writing. for it. He tells me he hears that there are great disputes like to be at Court, between the factions of the two women, my Lady Castlemayne and Mrs. Stewart, who is now well again, and the King hath made several public visits to her, and like to come to Court: the other is to go to Barkeshire-house, which is taken for her, and they say a Privy-Seal is passed for 5000l. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, kept over the period of a decade, is regarded as the most human and accessible diary of life at the time. Up, and to my office, where alone all the morning. But I did get him to prick me down the notes of the Echo in “The Tempest,” which pleases me mightily. worth of oranges of her, at 6d. and how many men do hover about them as soon as they come off the stage, and how confident they are in their talk! This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. The Question and Answer section for The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and … Thence parted, and I towards the New Exchange and there bought a pair of black silk stockings at the hosier’s that hath the very pretty woman to his wife, about ten doors on this side of the ’Change, and she is indeed very pretty, but I think a notable talking woman by what I heard to others there. 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. I asked, and she told me this was the first time her Lady had seen it, I having a mind to say something to her. And so to talk; and by and by did eat some curds and cream, and thence away home, and it being night, I did walk in the dusk up and down, round through our garden, over Tower Hill, and so through Crutched Friars, three or four times, and once did meet Mercer and another pretty lady, but being surprized I could say little to them, although I had an opportunity of pleasing myself with them, but left them, and then I did see our Nell, Payne’s daughter, and her je did desire venir after me, and so elle did see me to, Tower Hill to our back entry there that comes upon the degres entrant into nostra garden …, and so parted, and je home to put up things against to-morrow’s carrier for my wife; and, among others, a very fine salmon-pie, sent me by Mr. Steventon, W. Hewer’s uncle, and so to bed. Thence to Westminster Hall, where I hear the Lords are up, but what they have done I know not, and so walked toward White Hall and thence by water to the Tower, and so home and there to my letters, and so to Sir W. Pen’s; and there did talk with Mrs. Lowther, who is very kind to me, more than usual, and I will make use of it. Here I saw first my Lord Ormond since his coming from Ireland, which is now about eight days. https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/culture-magazines/diary-samuel-pepys In the original edition of 1825 scarcely half of the manuscript was printed. This morning the House is upon the City Bill, and they say hath passed it, though I am sorry that I did not think to put somebody in mind of moving for the churches to be allotted according to the convenience of the people, and not to gratify this Bishop, or that College. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Questions and Answers. But, Lord! ↩. Pepys’ diary is the cheerful self-report, not of the man eminent in naval history, not of the historical witness, but of the unobjectionable hedonist.’. Here I did kiss the pretty woman newly come, called Pegg, that was Sir Charles Sidly’s mistress, a mighty pretty woman, and seems, but is not, modest. The book that has informed Gyles Brandreth's whole life and inspired him to keep a journal of his own After the play done, I took Mercer by water to Spring Garden; and there with great pleasure walked, and eat, and drank, and sang, making people come about us, to hear us, and two little children of one of our neighbours that happened to be there, did come into our arbour, and we made them dance prettily. The diary by which Pepys is chiefly known was kept between his 27th and 36th years. Pepys was a careful observer of events and especially people, using his own shorthand to record them in vivid detail and with compassion. a-piece. Whilst Positive walks, like Woodcock in the park, Contriving projects with a brewer’s clerk. The Diaries of Samuel Pepys: A Selection is published by Penguin Classics (£18.99). The Question and Answer section for The Diary of Samuel Pepys is a great resource to ask questions, find answers, and … Here I first hear that the Queene hath miscarryed of a perfect child, being gone about ten weeks, which do shew that she can conceive, though it be unfortunate that she cannot bring forth. Up, and to the office, where all the morning. It is considered one of the most important diaries in the English language, offering a detailed account of critical historic events but also an insight into daily life in 17th century London. Samuel Pepys and His Diary. After the successful publication of John Evelyn’s diary in 1818, Pepys’s diary was transcribed—with great accuracy—by John Smith, later rector of Baldock, Hertfordshire. Andrew Marvell’s “Instructions to a Painter,” part iii., to which is subjoined the following note: “Sir Robert Howard, and Sir William Bucknell, the brewer.” — Works, ed. Diary entries from January 1660 (The Diary of Samuel Pepys) Diary entries from January 1660 Sunday 1 January 1659/60 Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain, but upon taking of cold. This was followed by the publication, in 1825, of the Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, a work of a … The Diary of Samuel Pepys essays are academic essays for citation. To order a copy for £16.14 go to guardianbookshop.com or … He being gone, I to church, and so home, and there comes W. Hewer and Balty, and by and by I sent for Mercer to come and dine with me, and pretty merry, and after dinner I fell to teach her “Canite Jehovae,” which she did a great part presently, and so she away, and I to church, and from church home with my Lady Pen; and, after being there an hour or so talking, I took her, and Mrs. Lowther, and old Mrs. Whistler, her mother-in-law, by water with great pleasure as far as Chelsy, and so back to Spring Garden, at Fox-hall, and there walked, and eat, and drank, and so to water again, and set down the old woman at home at Durham Yard: and it raining all the way, it troubled us; but, however, my cloak kept us all dry, and so home, and at the Tower wharf there we did send for a pair of old shoes for Mrs. Lowther, and there I did pull the others off and put them on, elle being peu shy, but do speak con mighty kindness to me that she would desire me pour su mari if it were to be done … Here staid a little at Sir W. Pen’s, who was gone to bed, it being about eleven at night, and so I home to bed. But here they tell me that they hear that this day Kate Joyce was to be married to a man called Hollingshed, whom she indeed did once tell me of, and desired me to enquire after him. My Lady [Castlemaine] pretty well pleased with it; but here I sat close to her fine woman, Willson, who indeed is very handsome, but, they say, with child by the King. So by water, with great pleasure, down to the Bridge, and there landed, and took water again on the other side; and so to the Tower, and I saw her home, I myself home to my chamber, and by and by to bed. to see how this play of Sir Positive At-all, —[“The Impertinents.”]— in abuse of Sir Robert Howard, do take, all the Duke’s and every body’s talk being of that, and telling more stories of him, of the like nature, that it is now the town and country talk, and, they say, is most exactly true. About 3 o’clock this morning I waked with the noise of the rain, having never in my life heard a more violent shower; and then the cat was locked in the chamber and kept a great mewing and leapt upon the bed, which made me I could not sleep a great while. KEYWORD: HML12-578 Author Online 578 by Capt. Here took a turn or two, and up to my Lord Crew’s, and there dined; where Mr. Case, the minister, a dull fellow in his talk, and all in the Presbyterian manner; a great deal of noise and a kind of religious tone, but very dull. So lay long, my head pretty well in the morning. Up, and to the office, where busy all the morning. Pepys possessed the journalist’s gift of summing up a scene or person in a few brilliant, arresting words. At noon home to dinner, and thither I sent for Mercer to dine with me, and after dinner she and I called Mrs. Turner, and I carried them to the Duke of York’s house, and there saw “The Man’s the Master,” which proves, upon my seeing it again, a very good play. The Diary of Samuel Pepys Questions and Answers. Thence I to White Hall, where the Duke of York gone to the Lords’ House, where there is to be a conference on the Lords’ side to the Commons this afternoon, giving in their Reasons, which I would have been at, but could not; for, going by direction to the Prince’s chamber, there Brouncker, W. Pen, and Mr. Wren, and I, met, and did our business with the Duke of York. The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. For Pepys and the inhabitants of London, there was no way of knowing whether an outbreak of the plague that occurred in the parish of St. Giles, a poor area outside the city walls, in late 1664 and early 1665 would become an epidemic. PREVIOUS EDITIONS OF THE DIARY. John Smith, A.B., of St. John’s College, Cambridge, from the original Shorthand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from his Private 11 6: 1665 Hardcover – September 1, 1972. by. Daily entries from the 17th century London diary. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. So time do alter, and do doubtless the like in myself. But Lord! and James II., comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. The son of John, a tailor and his wife Margaret, Samuel Pepys would later become famous for the diary he used to record the everyday events that were happening whilst he worked for the Navy. Based on the diaries of the naval administrator Samuel Pepys, it portrays life at the court of Charles II during the 1660s. Pepys wanted to find out about everything because he found everything interesting. Thence to White Hall, walked with Brisband, who dined there also, and thence I back to the King’s playhouse, and there saw “The Virgin Martyr,” and heard the musick that I like so well, and intended to have seen Knepp, but I let her alone; and having there done, went to Mrs. Pierces back again, where she was, and there I found her on a pallet in the dark …, that is Knepp. Up, and to the office, there to do business till church time, when Mr. Shepley, newly come to town, come to see me, and we had some discourse of all matters, and particularly of my Lord Sandwich’s concernments, and here did by the by as he would seem tell me that my Lady —[Lady Sandwich. Samuel Pepys - Samuel Pepys - The diary: The diary by which Pepys is chiefly known was kept between his 27th and 36th years. The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys, book of a lifetime: Open and compelling. The text for Pepys' Diary comes from But, however, I will not deny my Lady, if she ask it, whatever comes of it, though it be lost; but shall be glad that it is no bigger sum. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for his diary. His diary paints not only his own infirmities but the frailty of all mankind. 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. It is far more than an ordinary record of its writer’s thoughts and actions; it is a supreme work of art, revealing on every page the capacity for selecting the small, as well as the large, essential that conveys the sense of life; and it is probably, after the Bible and James Boswell’s Life of Samuel Johnson, the best bedside book in the English language. 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