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

From a young age, Pepys suffered from bladder stones in his urinary tract – a condition from which his mother and brother John also later suffered.

Hooke also participated in the design of the Pepys Library, which held the manuscripts of Samuel Pepys's diaries, the most frequently cited eyewitness account of the Great Fire of London.

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.

Old Bridget, queen of the Norwood Gypsies ( who appeared in the writings of Samuel Pepys ) was also buried here in 1768.

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.

The Pepys Building was also constructed in a way that it would provide a good view of the Fellows ' Garden with all the trees and flowers planted in it.

Pepys also described Anne as " not only the proudest woman in the world, but the most expensefull.

" Anne did not turn a cold shoulder to this: Pepys wrote that she gave James a hard time because of her jealousy ; but he also wrote that Anne and James were notorious for their public affections: they were kissing and leaning on each other in public.

" Notorious female shoplifters in London included Mary Frith, the pickpocket and fence also known as Moll Cutpurse, prostitute and pickpocket Moll King, Sarah McCabe whose shoplifting career spanned twenty years, and Maria Carlston ( also known as Mary Blacke ), whose life was documented by diarist Samuel Pepys, who was eventually executed for theft, and who for years shoplifted clothing and household linens in London with one or more female accomplices.

It reputedly takes its name from the practice of archery there during the Middle Ages, although the name is also commonly linked to its reputation as a haunt for highwaymen and was infamous for its gibbets of the executed ones as referred to in 1661 in Samuel Pepys diary.

John Evelyn, a junior member of James II's government, also reported the story of a relationship with a member of the Sidney family, and Samuel Pepys and Lord Clarendon also record similar tales about her background.

Before this, Samuel Pepys also saw it and wrote:

Pepys also relates a hint from a highly successful bidder, who had observed that, just before expiring, a candle-wick always flares up slightly: on seeing this, he would shout his final-and winning-bid.

King Charles I was fond of the work, and had Lanier perform it repeatedly ; Samuel Pepys also admired it, and had it transcribed by his " domestic musician ," Cesare Morelli.

The original 17th century design for the tomb is in the Pepys Library, Cambridge, and an image of it may also be found at the National Portrait Gallery.

John Hayls, also Hailes ( 1600 – 1679 ), was an English Baroque-era portrait painter, principally known for his portrait of Samuel Pepys.

Pepys was, evidently, so pleased with his wife's portrait, that he commissioned a portrait of himself ( see image ), and also persuaded his father Thomas Pepys to sit for the artist.

Pepys also mentioned that Hayls painted the actor Joseph Harris as Henry V.

Samuel Pepys, who makes many references to him, tells us he was an excellent musician, playing well upon the lute, and also a good linguist, speaking French with ease.

About this Second Anglo-Dutch War Pepys wrote: " In all things, in wisdom, courage, force and success, the Dutch have the best of us and do end the war with victory on their side ".

Samuel Pepys wrote an eyewitness account of the execution at Charing Cross, in which Major General Harrison was dryly reported to be " looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition ".

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.

Samuel Pepys, the diarist and civil servant, wrote in October 1666 that " the King hath yesterday in council declared his resolution of setting a fashion for clothes which he will never alter.

Samuel Pepys, after visiting him in 1667, wrote that he was a " mighty proud man ..... and full of state.

" The king ," wrote Samual Pepys in November, " who not long ago did say of Bristol that he was a man able in three years to get himself a fortune in any kingdom in the world and lose all again in three months, do now hug him and commend his parts everywhere above all the world.

Pepys wrote on 17 August 1667

In 1661, Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary of a visit to a porcelain factory in Narrow Street alighting via Duke Shore Stairs < ref >

Pepys must have heard such rumours, as in a letter to his friend Millington, the tutor of Magdalene College at Cambridge, dated September 26, 1693, he wrote: " I must acknowledge myself not at the ease I would be glad to be at in reference to excellent Mr Newton ; concerning whom ( methinks ) your answer labours under the same kind of restraint which ( to tell you the truth ) my asking did.

On September 20, 1693, Millington wrote to Pepys that he had been to look for Newton some time before, but that " he was out of town, and since ," he says, " I have not seen him, till upon the 28th I met him at Huntingdon, where, upon his own accord, and before I had time to ask him any question, he told me that he had written to you a very odd letter, at which he was much concerned ; added, that it was in a distemper that much seized his head, and that kept him awake for above five nights together, which upon occasion he desired I would represent to you, and beg your pardon, he being very much ashamed he should be so rude to a person for whom he hath so great an honour.

In 1661 Samuel Pepys wrote in his diary, " To St. James's Park, where I saw the Duke of York playing at Pelemele, the first time that I ever saw the sport ".

He was accompanied by Samuel Pepys who wrote an account of the evacuation.

De Gomme faced some criticism over his unorthodox design: for instance when Samuel Pepys visited in 1683 he wrote that " De Gomme hath built very sillily ".

Samuel Pepys wrote in The Diarist, having tasted the wine at Royal Oak Tavern on April 10, 1663, to have " drank a sort of French wine called Ho Bryen that hath a good and most particular taste I never met with ".

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.

Most were published by William Collins, Sons and Co. Ltd. Also, in collaboration with W. P. Lipscomb, he wrote a play dramatizing Pepys ' life which ran for one hundred and fifty performances in London.

Described by critic Dave Marsh as " the most widespread folk song in the English language ," " Barbara Allen " dates as far back as the 17th century, when Samuel Pepys wrote about the song in a diary entry dated January 2, 1665.

Pepys records in his celebrated diary a legend that, before his death, Nostradamus made the townsfolk swear that his grave would never be disturbed ; but that 60 years later his body was exhumed, whereupon a brass plaque was found on his chest correctly stating the date and time when his grave would be opened and cursing the exhumers.

He remained Jeffreys's tutor when the latter attended University College, Oxford in 1694, and he there met the variety of scholars then teaching mathematics and medicine, including Dr. John Radcliffe, Isaac Newton, and Samuel Pepys.

An even greater blow to him was when the post was eventually conferred on Charles Pepys, 1st Baron Cottenham, in January 1836.

The London diarist Samuel Pepys recorded the day in 1665 that a barber had shaved his head and that he tried on his new periwig for the first time, but in a year of plague he was uneasy about wearing it :" 3rd September 1665: Up, and put on my coloured silk suit, very fine, and my new periwig, bought a good while since, but darst not wear it because the plague was in Westminster when I bought it.

His influence seems to have been at its height in 1665, when he boasted to Pepys that the King did nothing without his knowledge ; however as the naval war dragged on the Treasurer of the Navy was an obvious target and Pepys noted that by the spring of 1666 Carteret was being attacked on all sides.

The regiment returned to France from 1662 – 66 and 1667 – 78, seeing English service again during the Second Anglo-Dutch War ; soldiers of the regiment responded to the Raid on the Medway, when Pepys recorded that Here in the streets, I did hear the Scotch march beat by the drums before the soldiers, which is very odde.

Pepys made detailed provisions in his will for the preservation of his book collection ; and, when his nephew and heir, John Jackson, died, in 1723, it was transferred, intact, to Magdalene.

* Naval records compiled by Pepys when he was Secretary to the Admiralty, including two of the ' Anthony Rolls ', illustrating the Royal Navy's ships circa 1546, including the Mary Rose

They appear to have been acquitted, for when in 1663 Sir Charles Sedley was tried for a gross breach of public decency in Covent Garden, Sackville, who had been one of the offenders, according to Samuel Pepys was asked by the Lord Chief Justice " whether he had so soon forgot his deliverance at that time, and that it would have more become him to have been at his prayers begging God's forgiveness than now running into such courses again.

The development of the functions of the Official Solicitor can be traced back to the 18th century when the Office of the Six Clerks, which is mentioned in Samuel Pepys ’ Diary, assisted destitute litigants, lunatics and infants in Chancery suits and this form of support continued until the modern system of legal funding came into effect.

In his famous Diary, Pepys described the production as " poorly done " with " much disorder " — when a boy singer performed a song poorly, the music master " fell about his ears and beat him so, that it put the whole house into an uproar.

Pepys was dining with his friend Sir George Downing on November 9, 1666, when the deaf servant had a conversation in sign language with his master, which included news of the Great Fire of London.