gs of the Philosophers_ and the _Knight
of the Tower_ each fetched five shillings and fourpence, the _History of
Jason_ three shillings and sixpence, the _Histories of King Arthur_ two
shillings and tenpence, the _Chastising of God's Children_ one shilling
and tenpence, and the second edition of the _Game of the Chesse_ one
shilling and sixpence.

Dibdin says that Dr. Bernard was 'a stoic in bibliography. Neither
beautiful binding, nor amplitude of margin, ever delighted his eye or
rejoiced his heart: for he was a stiff, hard, and straightforward
reader--and learned, in Literary History, beyond all his
contemporaries'; and in the preface to the sale catalogue we read that
he was 'a person who collected books for use, and not for ostentation or
ornament, and he seemed no more solicitous about _their_ dress than _his
own_.' A memorandum book containing notes of his visits to patients,
etc., is in the Sloane collection of manuscripts in the British Museum.

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 47: Address to the reader, prefixed to sale catalogue.]

SAMUEL PEPYS, 1633-1703

Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of King Charles
II. and King James II., was born either at London or Brampton in
Huntingdonshire on the 23rd of February 1633.

[Illustration: BOOK-PLATE OF SAMUEL PEPYS.]

His father, John Pepys, was a citizen of London, where he followed the
trade of a tailor, but in 1661 retired to Brampton, at which place he
had inherited a property of eighty pounds a year from his eldest brother
Robert Pepys. He died there in 1680. Samuel Pepys received his early
education at Huntingdon, and afterwards at St. Paul's School, London,
where he continued until 1650, in which year he was admitted at Trinity
Hall, Cambridge. On the 5th of March 1651 he migrated as a sizar to
Magdalene College, Cambridge, where he is entered in the books of the
College as 'Samuel Peapys,' and where, two years later, he was elected
to a scholarship founded by John Smith. He graduated B.A. in 1653 and
M.A. in 1660. In 1659 he accompanied his relative, Sir Edward Montagu,
afterwards Earl of Sandwich, on his expedition to the Sound, and on his
return became a clerk in the office of Sir G. Downing, one of the
Tellers of the Exchequer. In 1660 he was appointed Clerk of the Acts of
the Navy, which post he held until 1673, when he was made Secretary for
the Affairs of the Navy, and in 1684 he became Secretary of the
Admiralty, an office he r