For instance, Pepys Island was actually a misidentification of the Falkland Islands.

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It has been confused with Pepys Island, discovered by Dampier and Cowley in 1683, but this proved to be a phantom island.

In December 1683 the British corsair William Ambrose Cowle ( y ), master of the Bachelor's Delight, a ship of 40 guns proceeding on a circumnavigation of the globe, discovered at a latitude stated as 47ºS a previously uncharted and unpopulated island in the South Atlantic which he named " Pepys Island ", for Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Admiralty.

They identified Pepys Island as being synonymous with Puig, a phantom island sought by the French and known as " the Great Island ".

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This is mentioned in Samuel Pepys ' diary entry for 19 December 1663.

" Pepys described the event in his diary as " an Italian puppet play, that is within the rails there, which is very pretty.

Samuel Pepys is also associated with the Prospect of Whitby and the Cock Tavern.

Samuel Pepys FRS, MP, JP, (; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703 ) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man.

The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period.

In mid-1658 Pepys moved to Axe Yard, near where the modern Downing Street is located.

As always with Pepys it is people, not literary effects, that matter.

The system of odd numbered rounds is said to have been originated by Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economising on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired.

This claim was put forth in The Ill-Framed Knight: A Skeptical Inquiry Into the Identity of Sir Thomas Malory, written by the aforementioned William Matthews, a British professor who taught at UCLA ( and is most famous for his transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys ).

It is recorded in the diaries of Samuel Pepys that whilst surveying the damage to London caused by the Great Fire in the company of the Royal Family they were heard to discuss Mother Shipton's prophecy of the event.

This account is also quoted on a plaque on the wall of the Hung, Drawn and Quartered public house near Pepys Street, where the diarist lived and worked in the Navy Office.

* Samuel Pepys, whose diary is one of the primary historical sources for this period

The English diarist Samuel Pepys often wrote about the lace used for his, his wife's, and his acquaintances ' clothing, and on May 7, 1669 noted that he intended to remove the gold lace from the sleeves of his coat " as it is fit should ", possibly in order to avoid charges of ostentatious living.

On Lower Road, about half way between Surrey Quays and Canada Water stations, is a public house called the China Hall ; at one time it was the entrance to a riparian playhouse visited by Samuel Pepys and mentioned in his diary.

Shelton's system became very popular and is well known because it was used by Samuel Pepys for his diary and for many of his official papers, such as his letter copy books.

29 Clapham Common Northside ) is a Georgian house of five bays and three stories, designed by Samuel Pepys Cockerell as his own home.

St Giles Church in Ashtead Park dates from the 12th century, and Ashtead is mentioned twice in Samuel Pepys ' diaries.

Like Browne and Pepys, Evelyn was a lifelong bibliophile, and by his death his library is known to have comprised 3, 859 books and 822 pamphlets.

The College's most famous alumnus is Samuel Pepys, whose papers and books were donated to the College upon his death, and are now housed in the Pepys Building.

It is also distinctive in that most of the old buildings are in brick rather than stone ( save for the frontage of the Pepys Building ).

The college's buildings are distributed on both sides of the river, and is roughly divided into four areas: the main site, where the oldest buildings including the porter's lodge and the Pepys Library are located ; The Village, built in the 1930s and is exclusively student accommodation ; Quayside, built on the southeastern side of the river in the 1980s as an investment project which also provides student accommodation ; and Cripps Court, built in the 2000s for extra conference facilities and accommodation.

Past the formal hall, the Second Court is most clearly marked by the Pepys Building, where the Pepys Library is housed.

:" We continued to the SW to 47ºS where we saw an unknown and uninhabited island which I named Pepys.

Charles I, and Oliver Cromwell do not appear as historical figures in the Pepys collection, and Elizabeth I only once.

The figure of Britannia was said by Samuel Pepys to have been modelled on Frances Teresa Stuart, the future Duchess of Richmond, who was famous at the time for refusing to become the mistress of Charles II, despite the King's strong infatuation with her.

On Sunday 1 January 1661 he led a number of his men – Samuel Pepys said they later turned out to be only 50 although it had been thought they were 500 at first – to a bookseller called Mr. Johnson at St. Paul's to demand the Cathedral keys.

Samuel Pepys said of the marriage: "[...] that the Duke of York ’ s marriage with her hath undone the kingdom, by making the Chancellor so great above reach, who otherwise would have been but an ordinary man, to have been dealt with by other people [...]" In fact, after Anne's death, everyone at court struggled to find a new wife for James, but this new wife was not, under any circumstances, to be of humble birth.

On 25 February 1660 Barbara, gave birth to a daughter named Lady Anne Palmer, whom Palmer believed was his own daughter and the diary of Samuel Pepys on 23 August 1662 said: " But that which pleased me best was that my Lady Castlemayne stood over against us upon a piece of White-hall-where I glutted myself with looking on her.

Most of the church fittings are modern, but there are some significant survivals, such as the monument to Elizabeth Pepys and the pulpit, said to be the work of Grinling Gibbons.

The system of odd numbered rounds is said to have been originated by Samuel Pepys, Secretary to the Navy in the Restoration, as a way of economizing on the use of powder, the rule until that time having been that all guns had to be fired.

He said he had seen two men, including Samuel Atkins, secretary to Samuel Pepys.

He was regarded, perhaps falsely, as one of the Fifth Monarchists, and at the first rumour of insurrection was arrested and sent to the Tower of London in December 1660, where Samuel Pepys went to see him and wrote in his diary that Overton had been found with a large quantity of arms, which Pepys recorded that Overton said he only bought to London to sell.

The devoted playgoer Samuel Pepys called it " the finest playhouse ... that ever was in England " in his diary, a sentiment he would need to revise many times over the coming decade, and recorded his awe at seeing Michael Mohun, " who is said to be the best actor in the world ", act on its stage.

Pepys ' story of his humble birth, in explanation of his popularity, is said to be erroneous.