Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life by Samuel Pepys
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edition, revised and corrected. In four volumes. London, published for
Henry Colburn by his successors, Hurst and Blackett . . . 1854. 8vo. The copyright of Lord Braybrooke's edition was purchased by the late Mr. Henry G. Bohn, who added the book to his Historical Library. 5. Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., from his MS. Cypber in the Pepysian Library, with a Life and Notes by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. Deciphered, with additional notes, by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A. . . . London, Bickers and Son, 1875-79. 6 vols. 8vo. Nos. 1, 2 and 3 being out of copyright have been reprinted by various publishers. No. 5 is out of print. PARTICULARS OF THE LIFE OF SAMUEL PEPYS. The family of Pepys is one of considerable antiquity in the east of England, and the Hon. Walter Courtenay Pepys [Mr. W. C. Pepys has paid great attention to the history of his family, and in 1887 he published an interesting work entitled "Genealogy of the Pepys Family, 1273-1887," London, George Bell and Sons, which contains the fullest pedigrees of the family yet issued.] says that the first mention of the name that he has been able to find is in the Hundred Rolls (Edw. I, 1273), where Richard Pepis and John Pepes are registered as holding lands in the county of Cambridge. In the next |
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