The Diary of Samuel Pepys, M.A., F.R.S., Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admirality Volume 9, PT. 1; Pepysiana, Or, Additional Notes on the Par

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1899 Excerpt: ... CHAPTER V. FRIENDS AND ACQUAINTANCES. The Diary is full of references to the men and women of the time. Some of these were of little importance in the world, and it is often difficult to find any information respecting them, but in course of time Pepys came in contact with most of the distinguished persons in the country, so that in reading these pages it seems as if we were assisting at a march past of the chief actors in the history of ten years. Some of the notes respecting these men and women in the previous volumes are incomplete, and some of them incorrect. In these cases a few additional notes and corrections seem to be advisable. St. Paul's School. Pepys mentions in his Diary several of his schoolfellows at St. Paul's School, and most of them are recorded in Gardiner's "Registers."1 One or tw0, however, are not mentioned in that work, as--Brownlow (vii. 394), who is not definitely said to be a Pauline, and Jack Cole, who died in May, 1665. Less than a year before, Cole had called upon Pepys, when they talked of old times: " I made him stay with me till 11 at night, talking of old school stories, and very pleasing ones, and truly I find that we did spend our time and thoughts then otherwise than I think boys do now, and I think as well as methinks the best are now... strange to see how we are all divided that were bred so long at school together, and what various fortunes we have run, some good, some bad" (vol. iv., p. 199). Tom Alcock, mentioned on March 15th, 1659-60, was 1 " The Admission Registers of St. Paul's School... edited by Rev. Robert Barlow Gardiner." London, 1884. 95 "one that went to school with" Pepys "at Huntingdon" (vol. i., p. 91). The Paulines noticed in the Diary and mentioned in Gardiner's "Registers" are as follows: Christmas, ...