Because he didn't want anybody else to read it, he kept it safe and wrote some parts in a special code! We went home to my Lord’s lodgings afterwards, and there I parted with my Lady and went home, where I did find my wife pretty well after her physic. So to bed. Charles Pepys (“the joiner”), Master-Joiner with the Chatham yard ( c. 1632 – c. 1701)+ (1662)+ Joan, widow Smith

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My wife has been so ill of late of her old pain that I have not known her this fortnight almost, which is a pain to me. In Latham and Matthews's Companion to the diary, Martin Howard Stein suggests that Pepys suffered from a combination of astigmatism and long sight.Office day. Much troubled all this morning in my mind about the business of my walk on the leads. I spoke of it to the Comptroller and the rest of the principal officers, who are all unwilling to meddle in anything that may anger my Lady Davis. And so I am fain to give over for the time that she do continue therein. In 1672, he became an Elder Brother of Trinity House and served in this capacity until 1689; he was Master of Trinity House in 1676–1677 and again in 1685–1686. [46] In 1673, he was promoted to Secretary of the Admiralty Commission and elected MP for Castle Rising in Norfolk.

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Nine years after he began, Samuel Pepys stopped writing because he thought he was losing his eyesight.

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This was the world of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board and diarist. He had grown up in the city and, with a talent for administration and hard work, was a rising star in the English Admiralty of King Charles II. The diary he kept for nearly ten years from 1660 eventually became one of Britain's most celebrated and a unique records of everyday life for an upper middle-class person in Stuart England. Historians have long admired Pepys' diary because it features many minor day-to-day happenings that other contemporary documents do not cover. Weinreb, Ben; Hibbert, Christopher; Keay, John; Keay, Julia (2008). The London Encyclopaedia (3rded.). Pan Macmillan. ISBN 978-1-405-04924-5. Take a look at the whole of Samuel Pepys’ will if you can. See how long the real document was and where these extracts come from!