etained until the accession of William and
Mary, when he lost his public appointments, and retired into private
life. Pepys was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1665, and in
1684 became President. He died at Clapham on the 26th of May 1703, and
was buried in the church of St. Olave, Hart Street, London.

Pepys collected a very interesting library, which is now preserved in a
fireproof room in Magdalene College, Cambridge. It consists of about
three thousand volumes arranged in eleven mahogany cases in the precise
order in which Pepys left them. The cases are the identical ones
mentioned in his _Diary_, August 24, 1666:--'Up and dispatched several
businesses at home in the morning, and then comes Sympson to set up my
other new presses for my books, and so he and I fell in to the
furnishing of my new closett, and taking out the things out of my old,
and I kept him with me all day, and he dined with me, and so all the
afternoon till it was quite dark hanging things, that is my maps and
pictures and draughts, and setting up my books, and as much as we could
do, to my most extraordinary satisfaction; so I think it will be as
noble a closet as any man hath, and light enough--though indeed it would
be better to have a little more light.'

This room, Mr. Wheatley tells us in his excellent account of the library
in vol. i. of _Bibliographica_, 'was at the Navy Office in Crutched
Friars, and the illustration in the ordinary editions of the _Diary_
shows the position of the cases when they were transferred to the house
in York Buildings (now Buckingham Street, Strand).' 'The presses,' he
adds, 'are handsomely carved, and have handles fixed at each end; the
doors are formed of little panes of glass, and in the lower divisions
the glass windows are made to lift up. The books are all arranged in
double rows; but by the ingenious plan of placing small books in front
of large ones, the letterings of all can be seen. Neatness was a mania
with Pepys, and the volumes were evened on all the shelves; in one
instance some short volumes have been raised to the required height by
help of wooden stilts, gilt in front.'

The library consists principally of ordinary books, but it also
comprises some valuable manuscripts, and many volumes from the presses
of the early English printers. It contains as many as nine Caxtons,
eight Pynsons, and nineteen Wynkyn de Wordes, several of the last being
unique. The books printed by Caxton are the _