Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life

Samuel Pepys · 1659-1669 (diary as a whole); this volume’s prefatory/editorial material is 1893

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in brief

The editor reports Pepys’s brief college misconduct for drunkenness in October 1653, then narrates his classical education, graduation in 1653, his marriage to Elizabeth St. Michel in December 1655, and her family’s Huguenot background.

in the following month he was elected to one of Mr. Spendluffe's scholarships, and two years later (October 14th, 1653) he was preferred to one on Dr. John Smith's foundation.

Little or nothing is known of Pepys's career at college, but soon after obtaining the Smith scholarship he got into trouble, and, with a companion, was admonished for being drunk.

[October 21st, 1653. "Memorandum: that Peapys and Hind were solemnly admonished by myself and Mr. Hill, for having been scandalously over-served with drink ye night before. This was done in the presence of all the Fellows then resident, in Mr. Hill's chamber.--JOHN WOOD, Registrar." (From the Registrar's-book of Magdalene College.)]

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topics: education and the training of the young · marriage and betrothal · religious persecution and toleration

Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 01: Preface and Life · Samuel Pepys · 1659–1669