Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys from his MScypher in the Pepsyian Library, with a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke . ckonedby the silly people, or perhaps may, by policy of State,be thought fit to be condemned by the King and Dukeof York, and so put to trouble; though, God knows !I have, in my own person, done my full duty, I amsure. Home, and to bed with a heavy heart. Themanner of my advising this night with my father was,I took him and my wife up to her chamber, and shutthe door; and there told them the sad state of thetimes how we are like to be all undone; that I do fear
Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys from his MScypher in the Pepsyian Library, with a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke . ckonedby the silly people, or perhaps may, by policy of State,be thought fit to be condemned by the King and Dukeof York, and so put to trouble; though, God knows !I have, in my own person, done my full duty, I amsure. Home, and to bed with a heavy heart. Themanner of my advising this night with my father was,I took him and my wife up to her chamber, and shutthe door; and there told them the sad state of thetimes how we are like to be all undone; that I do fearsome violence will be offered to this office, where all Ihave in the world is; and resolved upon sending it 1 The reading in the MS. is Crowland, and not Croyland. William Pepyswas born at Dunbar, in Scotland, brought up by the Abbot of Crowland, inHuntingdonshire, placed by him at Cottenham, and made bayliffe of all hislands in Cambridgeshire. He died in 1519, leaving issue three sons andthree daughters. (M. B.) 2 Vanderveldes drawings of the conflagration of the English fleet, madeby him on the spot, are in the British ^?r^:-
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