INTRODUCTION. SAMUEL PEPYS was born on the 23rd of February, 1633, the son of a tailor. He went to school for a little while at Huntingdon, then at St. Paul's, in London, and from St. Paul's School went, as a sizar, to Trinity College, Cambridge, becoming not long afterwards a pensioner at Magdalene. He obtained at College a scholarship, and also a public rebuke for indulgence in wine. At the age of twenty-two, Samuel Pepys married a beautiful girl of fifteen, the daughter of a poor Huguenot refugee. There was an old family relation between Samuel Pepys and Sir Edward Montagu, afterwards Earl of Sandwich; Montagu's mother having married Pepys's grandfather. Sir Edward Montagu, there |