. The diary of Samuel Pepys ... is est Quisque ; below, the same inscription as onNo. I, and R. W. sculp. This is another copy of the sameportrait by Kneller as No. i. 3. Anchor plate. The initials, S. P., with two anchors andropes intertwined, and the motto on a riband above. This isprobably the earliest plate, but, as stated above, we have noinformation as to its date. 4. Heraldic plate. Pepyss coat-of-arms, with crest andelaborate mantling, and this curious inscription below: SamuelPepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire Esq. Secretary of the 64 PEPYSIANA. Admiralty to his Ma^ King Charles the
. The diary of Samuel Pepys ... is est Quisque ; below, the same inscription as onNo. I, and R. W. sculp. This is another copy of the sameportrait by Kneller as No. i. 3. Anchor plate. The initials, S. P., with two anchors andropes intertwined, and the motto on a riband above. This isprobably the earliest plate, but, as stated above, we have noinformation as to its date. 4. Heraldic plate. Pepyss coat-of-arms, with crest andelaborate mantling, and this curious inscription below: SamuelPepys of Brampton in Huntingdonshire Esq. Secretary of the 64 PEPYSIANA. Admiralty to his Ma^ King Charles the Second : Descendedof y* antient family of Pepys of Cottenham in Cambridge-shire. Much criticism has been expended upon this inscrip-tion, and Pepys has been chided for his vanity, but there isreally a very simple explanation of the inscription. The lateSir Wollaston Franks pointed out to me that this rare armorialwas engraved in the fifth edition of Guillims Heraldry,edited by Richard Blome (1679), and that the inscription is. similar in character to those attached to the other armorialbearings engraved in that book. Another point of interest inthis plate is that the old method of tricking with letters is W. J. Hardy, alluding to this peculiarity, which it enjoysin common with other work in Blomes Guillim, writes : A point of interest about them all is that, as well as express-ing heraldically the blazon of the different shields, they alsoindicate with an initial letter the colour intended to be shown :a for argent, g for gules, and so on. The initial of the g^^ens cijfusquejs esta^ifsq^e J^^^g
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