o used three bookplates--one with his arms, quartering Talbot of
Cottenham; a second with his portrait by Robert White, with his motto,
_Mens cujusque is est Quisque_, from the _Somnium Scipionis_ of Cicero;
and a third bearing his initials, with two anchors crossed, together
with his motto.
[Illustration: BOOK-STAMP OF SAMUEL PEPYS.]
Pepys left his library, together with his other property, to his nephew,
John Jackson; but in a paper of directions respecting it, preserved
among the Harleian Manuscripts in the British Museum, he expresses a
desire that at his nephew's death it should be placed in either Trinity
or Magdalene College, Cambridge, preferably 'in the latter, for the sake
of my own and my nephew's education therein.' In addition to Pepys'
collection at Magdalene College, the Bodleian Library contains a series
of his miscellaneous papers in twenty-five volumes, together with
numerous other volumes which belonged to him, including many curious
dockyard account-books of the times of King Henry VIII. and Queen
Elizabeth.[48] These were bequeathed to the library by Dr. Richard
Rawlinson, the nonjuring bishop. Mr. John Eliot Hodgkin, F.S.A., of
Childwall, Weybridge, Surrey, also possesses some papers which once
belonged to Pepys.
Pepys published _Memoirs relating to the State of the Royal Navy of
England for ten years determined December 1688_, in 1690; and a work
entitled _The Portugal History: or a Relation of the Troubles that
happened in the Court of Portugal in the years 1667 and 1668 ... by
S.P., Esq._, printed at London in 1677, is also attributed to him. His
well-known _Diary_, the manuscript of which fills six small volumes of
closely written shorthand, was first deciphered by the Rev. John Smith,
Rector of Baldock, Hertfordshire, and was published, with a selection
from his private correspondence, by Lord Braybrooke, in two volumes in
1825. It has since been several times reprinted. The last edition,
edited by Mr. H.B. Wheatley, F.S.A., published in eight volumes octavo
in 1893-96, contains the whole of the _Diary_, with the exception of
passages which cannot possibly be printed.
FOOTNOTES:
[Footnote 48: Macray, _Annals of the Bodleian Library_.]
EDWARD STILLINGFLEET, BISHOP OF WORCESTER, 1635-1699
Edward Stillingfleet, Bishop of Worcester, was the seventh son of Samuel
Stillingfleet of the family of Stillingfleet of Stillingfleet,
Yorkshire. He was born at Cranborne in Dorsetshire
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