PREFACE. vii by Richard Sherwyn Esq' one of the Justices of the Peace of the Cittie and Lyberties of Westm' December 1st. (Signed) Ri. Sherwyn." The pronunciation of Pepys's name has long been a disputed point, but although the most usual form at the present day is Peps, there can be little doubt that in his own time the name was pronounced as if written Peeps. The reasons for this opinion are: (1) that the name was sometimes so spelt phonetically by some of his contemporaries, as in the Coffee-house paper quoted in the " Diary" (ed. Mynors Bright, vol. vi. P. 292): "On Tuesday last Mr. Peeps went to Windsor," &c.; (2) that this pronunciation is still the received one at Magdalene College, Cambridge; and (3) that the present bearers of the name so pronounce it. In conclusion, it is my pleasing duty to express here my best thanks to those friends who have kindly assisted me in my work. Chief among these are Professor Newton, F.R.S., who, as Fellow of Magdalene College, facilitated my inquiries respecting the Pepysian Library, Mr. Patrick, Senior Fellow and President of the College, Mr. Pepys Cockerell, Mr. Scharf, F.S.A., and Colonel Pasley, whose List of the Secretaries of the Admiralty, &c., in the Appen dix will be found of great value, not merely in illustrating Pepys's life, but as a real addition to our information respecting the history of the Navy. "He was a pollard man, without the top (i. e. the reason as the source of ideas, or immediate yet not sensuous truths, having their evidence in themselves; or the imagination or idealizing power, by symbols mediating between the reason and the understanding), but on this account more broadly and luxuriantly branching out from the upper trunk.". COLERIDGE'S MS. note in his copy of the "Diary" (Notes and Queries, Ist S. vol. vi. p. 215). AMUEL PEPYS was the first of a well-established stock to make a name in the outer world, but since his time the family can boast of having had amongst its members a Court physician, a bishop, and a lord chancellor. The earliest recorded Pep,- was named Thomas, and appears, on the authority of the Court Rolls of the manor of Pelhams, in Cotten B |