Samuel Pepys and the World He Lived In

Warner, John, 1685. B., S.

Warren, Sir William, 1664–88. B.

Wells, Jeremiah, Rector of West Hanningfield, Essex, 1670–9. B.

Wescombe, Sir Martin, Consul at Cadiz, 1686. B.

Wheler, George, 1681. B.

Williamson, Sir Joseph, 1689. B., S.

Wivell, E., 1674–87. B.

Wood, Dr. Robert, 1682. B., S.

Woolley, William, 1684. B.

Wren, Matthew, 1669–70. B., P.

Wrenn, Captain Ralph, 1687. B.

Wright, Edward, 1680. B. 1696. P.

Wyborne, Sir John, Deputy Governor of Bombay, 1680–8. B. 1686–8. S.

Wyborne, Lady (K.), 1683–8. B. 1686–7. S.

Wylde, Captain Charles, 1683. B., S.

Yeabsley, Thomas, Contractor for the Victualling of Tangier, 1664–5.

APPENDIX VI.

LISTS

Of the Secretaries of the Admiralty, and Principal Officers of the Navy; viz., Treasurers, Comptrollers, Surveyors, Clerks of the Acts, and Commissioners of the Navy at Chatham; to the beginning of the 18th century. (Compiled by Colonel Pasley, C.B., R.E.)

FROM the middle of the 16th to the end of the 17th century, Chatham was by far the most important of the English naval stations, and the Commissioner resident there had from the first a seat and vote at the Board in London—a privilege which was not extended to his colleague at Portsmouth until a much later date. The rise of the latter port dates from the alliance with the Dutch, and war with France which followed the accession of William and Mary, and which made it necessary to establish a first-class naval yard at a less distance from the French coast than Chatham. The same cause led to the construction of a dry dock at Plymouth. See “Edmund Dummer,” in the list of Surveyors of the Navy.

The figures in the first column represent the year of appointment, when that can be ascertained. The prefix “circ.” implies that the person named in the second column is known to have held the office at the time stated, although the date of first appointment is not known. In some cases the only date that can be found is that of an order to the Attorney-General to prepare letters patent; sometimes that of the patent itself; sometimes of a warrant to execute the office, notwithstanding that the patent is not yet passed; and occasionally that of a letter from some person at Court informing his correspondent that the King or Queen has signed such and such a patent. It has been thought better, therefore, to state only the year of appointment, as the insertion in lists of this kind of the month and day tends to give them a delusive appearance of accuracy.

The scantiness of MS. records before the Revolution arises from the practice which existed of retiring Officers taking away with them their office books and papers, which they regarded as their own property. This was put a stop to in the Dockyards by a Navy Board Order of the 18th August, 1692. Unless otherwise stated, the manuscripts in the following lists are in the British Museum.

SECRETARIES OF THE ADMIRALTY,

From the first placing of the Office of Lord High Admiral in Commission to the commencement of the 18th century

Note.—An asterisk (*) before the name of a titled office-holder signifies that the title (knighthood or other) was conferred upon him during his tenure of that office.

TREASURERS OF THE NAVY,

To the commencement of the 18th century

Afterwards Lord Brooke.

COMPTROLLERS OF THE NAVY,

To the commencement of the 18th century

This volume contains a transcript of part of Pepys’s Naval Collections in the Library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. It comprises some extracts from Lord Clarendon’s copy of the Council Books of King Henry VIII. from 1541 to 1543, one of which records a letter being written to Mr. Stanhopp and John Osburne, “Comptroller of the King’s H.’

Ships.” I cannot find the date of his first appointment.

Afterwards Sir George Carteret, Treasurer of the Navy.

SURVEYORS OF THE NAVY,

To the commencement of the 18th century

CLERKS OF THE SHIPS, OF THE NAVY, OR OF THE ACTS,

To the commencement of the 18th century

COMMISSIONERS OF THE NAVY APPOINTED TO RESIDE AT CHATHAM,

From the first establishment of that office in 1630 to the commencement of the 18th century

Chatham Parish Register, quoted in “Archæologia,” vol. xii. p. 284.

Note respecting Sir Phineas Pett.—There were so many shipbuilders of the name of Phineas Pett, that it is often difficult to trace the history of any one of them. In February, 1660, Phineas Pett, son of John Pett, and grandson of Commissioner Phineas Pett, being then Assistant-Master Shipwright at Chatham, petitioned to be promoted, and was appointed Master Shipwright at Chatham in the same month. But it would appear that the appointment was revoked, or never carried into effect, for in the following July we find Phineas Pett, “of Ratcliffe,” who had been appointed Master Shipwright at Portsmouth in June, transferred to Chatham in the same capacity. And in September Phineas Pett, Assistant-Master Shipwright at Chatham, was suspended from office on the accusation of having, when a child, spoken contemptuously of the King! For this offence he was dismissed in the following month.

APPENDIX VII.

PLAYS WHICH PEPYS SAW ACTED

CHAPTER XII. (#x20_x_20_i3)—Pepys was not very careful in setting down the titles of the plays he saw, and in many instances he quotes the second titles alone. This caution must be remembered by those consulting the following list:—

Adventures of Five Hours (Tuke), “Duke’s,” Jan. 8, 17, 1662–63; Jan. 27, 1668–69; “Court at Whitehall,” Feb. 15, 1668–69.

Aglaura (Suckling), “King’s,” Jan. 10, 1667–68.

Albumazar (Tomkis), “Duke’s,” Feb. 22, 1667–68.

Alchymist (Ben Jonson), “Theatre,” June 22, Aug. 14, 1661; “King’s,” April 17, 1669.

All’s Lost by Lust (W. Rowley), “Red Bull,” March 23, 1661.

Antipodes (R. Brome), “Theatre,” Aug. 26, 1661.