Volume 1

Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke.

  • Pepys, Samuel, 1633-1703.
Date:
1825
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Credit: Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. : secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence / Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    before that town the 25th, and departed the 29th of March, after having sent two of his captains ashore to treat of a peace, but without effect. This only is added by the slave, that had Sir John Narbo- rough staid one day more in the road, those of Algier had certainly made a peace with him, that Government having, it seems, afterward expressed some trouble that it was not done; by which calculation of time we may now, from day to day, expect his being here. I have remembered your Highness’s command in reference to Captain Lloyd’s being appointed one of the Newfoundland convoys, (which his Majesty has been pleased to agree to,) in company with Captain Talbot in the Mary Rose, Captain Priestman in the Antelope, and Captain Kemp- thorne in the Dover, and will take care that Mr. Hickman be enter- tained as a volunteer with Captain Lloyd. How his Majesty has been pleased (among his other great changes) to dispose of the Admi- ralty, by a new Commission to these gentlemen, viz. Sir Henry Capel, Mr. Dan. Finch, Sir Tho. Ley, Sir Thomas Meres, Mr. Vaughan, Sir Hum. Winch, and Mr. Hales of Kent, your Highness (I doubt not) has many days since known; nor shall I think it becoming me to interpose any thoughts of mine touching his Majesty’s choice therein, more than for his, and his service’s sake, I could wish his naval arrangements to be such as for a time might allow these worthy gentlemen opportunity of being informed in the work of their great office, before they be urged to much execution in it. And this I am the bolder in wishing, since they have taken upon themselves the performance of that branch of the Admiral’s task which his Majesty was pleased, for the ease of his last Commissioners, to reserve the trouble of to himself, namely, the issuing all sailing instructions to his fleet and ships; his Majesty having, at the instance of these gentle- men, put that part also in their hands, together with the granting of all officers in the navy, in the same manner as it has at any time been exercised by the Lords Admirals of England. For what concerns my own particular, your Highness was ])leased to foretell me, at your going hence, what I was soon after to look for; and it is come to pass. For whether I will or no, a Papist I must be, because favoured by your Royal Highness, and found endeavouring, on all fitting occasions,