"in 1672. The experience of large-scale battle was instructive to the Navy; the Articles of War regularizing the conduct of officers and seaman, and the ""Fighting Instructions"" establishing the line of battle, both date from this period. The influence and reforms of Samuel Pepys, the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II, were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 rearranged the political map of Europe, and led to a series of wars with France that lasted well over a century. This was the classic"
"frustration to Pepys. Pepys' diary provides a first-hand account of the Restoration, and it is also notable for its detailed accounts of several major events of the 1660s, along with the lesser known diary of John Evelyn. In particular, it is an invaluable source for the study of the Second Anglo-Dutch War of 1665–7, the Great Plague of 1665, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. In relation to the Plague and Fire, C. S. Knighton has written: ""From its reporting of these two disasters to the metropolis in which he thrived, Pepys's diary has become a national monument."""
"Josiah Burchett Josiah Burchett (1666? – 2 October 1746) was Secretary of the Admiralty in England, a position he held for almost fifty years from 26 September 1694 to 14 October 1742. In addition to his administrative duties, he was the author of the first general history of the Royal Navy, published in 1720 and based on official Admiralty records. Burchett was clerk to Samuel Pepys, the English civil servant famous for his diary. Burchett eventually fell out of favour with Pepys, but gained the respect and favour of Lord Admiral Edward Russell, and eventually was appointed Secretary of the"
"was ejected from his living at the Restoration of the monarchy in 1660, going on to become a private chaplain to Denzil Holles and John Maynard, both veteran Parliamentarians. Though Morrice reveals virtually nothing about himself in his diaries, his ""Entring Book"" is a particularly useful source document for London life and politics from the late 1670s to the early 1690s – as informative, in its own way, as the better known ""Diaries"" of Samuel Pepys. Morrice himself was a puritan clergyman who became a close associate of those opposed to the forms of absolute government favoured by the later"
"turbulent events of his nation. England was in disarray when he began writing his diary. Oliver Cromwell had died just a few years before, creating a period of civil unrest and a large power vacuum to be filled. Pepys had been a strong supporter of Cromwell, but he converted to the Royalist cause upon the Protector’s death. He was on the ship that brought Charles II home to England. He gave a firsthand account of events, such as the coronation of King Charles II and the Restoration of the British Monarchy to the throne, the Anglo-Dutch war, the Great Plague,"
"and was dissolved on 22 April 1659. He did not sit in parliament after the Restoration of 1660. Although he spoke seldom, he is assumed to have been a regular attendant in the house. Burton has been identified as the author of a diary of parliamentary proceedings from 1656 to 1659. The authorship was in dispute during the nineteenth century, as reported by Sidney Lee in the ""Dictionary of National Biography"", Thomas Carlyle having suggested Nathaniel Bacon; later research has confirmed it, according to Ivan Roots in the ""Oxford Dictionary of National Biography"". It was edited and published in four"
"""Parts of this article are based on content taken from the 1896 edition of the ""Dictionary of National Biography"", and are thus presumed to be in the public domain."" Sir John Reresby, 2nd Baronet Sir John Reresby, 2nd Baronet (14 April 1634 – 12 May 1689) was a 17th-century English politician and diarist. On returning from exile in 1667, he became a member of Parliament in 1673. Reresby was born at Thrybergh, Yorkshire in 1634, the eldest son of Sir John Reresby. His mother, Frances, was daughter of Edmund Yarburgh of Snaith Hall, Yorkshire. Reresby, in his ""Memoir and Travels"","
"William Upcott, librarian of the London Institution. The manuscripts, which form six oblong 12mo volumes, are now in the British Museum (Addit. MSS. 15859–64), and bear no author's name. The editor prefixed extracts from the ""Journal"" of Guibon Goddard, M.P., dealing with the parliament of 1654. Thomas Burton (MP for Westmorland) Thomas Burton (died 1661), of Brampton Hall, Westmorland, was an English politician, the Member of Parliament for Westmorland from 1656 to 1659, known as a parliamentary diarist. He was a justice of the peace for Westmorland. He was returned to parliament as member for the county on 20 August"
"private Acts of Parliament in 1667 bastardizing her issue since 1659 and granting him permission to remarry in 1670. This process required considerable expenditure and trouble. It also caused a series of quarrels with his hot-tempered father-in-law, who on one occasion challenged him to a duel. The divorce proceedings aroused enormous public interest and had some political significance since among the regular attenders in the House of Lords was King Charles II of England himself. By his own account he was only there for the entertainment, finding the debates ""as good as a play""; but there was a rumour that"
"college. He was best known for his private diaries, known to critics as the ""Pepys Diary"", which provided a major eyewitness account for the Great Fire of London of 1666. Pepys was remembered by the Pepys Library, built around 1700, where the original manuscripts of his diaries and naval records are kept, in addition to his collection of printed books and engravings in their original bookcases. Pepys stipulated in his will that the library was to be left to Magdalene, and have been kept at the college since their donation by Pepys’s nephew, John Jackson, in 1724. The building is"
"quarrel between Pepys and Leijonbergh, which led to an abortive duel, may have been caused by Lady Batten's claim that Pepys was withholding money due to the Batten estate. William Batten Sir William Batten (1600/1601 – c. 1667) was an English naval officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667. As Surveyor of the Navy, he was a colleague of Samuel Pepys, who disliked him and regularly disparaged him in his famous Diary. Batten was the son of Andrew Batten of Somerset, master in the Royal Navy. In 1625 he was stated to be"
"Robert Bowyer (diarist) Robert Bowyer (ca. 1560–1621) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1601 and 1610. He served as Keeper of the Records in the Tower of London early in the reign of James I of England and was named to the office of Clerk of the Parliaments in 1610. He is notable for his ""Diary"", which records much of the detailed proceedings of Parliament between 1605 and 1607. He should not be confused with the Robert Bowyer who was granted the reversion of some minor Exchequer offices in 1604, or"
"clearly based on the official reports received in the Admiralty. Burchett's ""A Complete History of the Most Remarkable Transactions at Sea"", along with Thomas Lediard's 1735 ""The Naval History of England"", has become a key source of naval history of that era. Since he held the office of Secretary of the Admiralty, the key administrator of the Royal Navy, longer than any other person and had extensive official correspondence and Admiralty papers that have been preserved, his books and writings are relied upon by maritime and naval war historians. Unlike his predecessor Samuel Pepys, Burchett left no known diary or"
"dictated a journal for two months in 1669–70 as a record of his dealings with the Commissioners of Accounts at that period. He also kept a diary for a few months in 1683 when he was sent to Tangier, Morocco as the most senior civil servant in the navy, during the English evacuation. The diary mostly covers work-related matters. On the Navy Board, Pepys proved to be a more able and efficient worker than colleagues in higher positions. This often annoyed Pepys and provoked much harsh criticism in his diary. Among his colleagues were Admiral Sir William Penn, Sir George"
"he used and the elaborate planning by which he ensured his library survived intact after his death. The women whom he pursued, his friends, and his dealings are all laid out. His diary reveals his jealousies, insecurities, trivial concerns, and his fractious relationship with his wife. It has been an important account of London in the 1660s. The juxtaposition of his commentary on politics and national events, alongside the very personal, can be seen from the beginning. His opening paragraphs, written in January 1660, begin: The entries from the first few months were filled with news of General George Monck's"
"in the Diary concerning the escape of Charles II from Worcester Castle with the longhand version of the same event Pepys published later. Later Smith was told that the diary was actually written in a shorthand system devised by Thomas Skelton and that the textbook Pepys learnt it from was on the bookshelf above Smith's head. Smith's transcription, which is kept in the Pepys Library, was the basis for the first published edition of the diary, edited by Lord Braybrooke, released in two volumes in 1825. Smith married Elizabeth Frances Smith (c1795-1864) and with her had a son, Josiah William"
"to have lost an opportunity for jotting down in his notebook such topographical or genealogical memoranda as he came across. So he kept a diary of the marchings of the royal army from 10 April 1644 to 11 February 1646 (four notebooks now held in the British Library). These were frequently quoted by county historians, and in 1859 were edited for the Camden Society by Charles Edward Long, under the title ""Diary of the Marches of the Royal Army during the Great Civil War"". Much of the interest of the diary lies in its topographical content, including detailed notes of"
"the royalist leaders. In 1660 the king made him a knight, and in 1661 he became a member of parliament for Westminster and secretary to another Lord Treasurer, Lord Southampton, retaining this post until the treasury was put into commission on Southampton's death in May 1667. Warwick's only son, the younger Philip Warwick (1640–1683), served as envoy to Sweden in 1680. Warwick is chiefly known for his ""Memoirs of the reigne of King Charles I, with a continuation to the happy restoration of King Charles II"", written between 1675 and 1677 and published in London in 1701. Philip Warwick Sir"
"Anchitell Grey The Hon. Anchitell Grey (c. 1624 – 8 July 1702) was an English politician who sat in the House of Commons in two periods between 1665 and 1695. Although he spoke rarely, he kept a detailed diary of proceedings in the House of Commons, summarising the speeches he heard. The diary, published in the 18th century, is the main surviving record for the debates in Parliament in most of the period that it covers. Grey was the second son of Henry Grey, 1st Earl of Stamford and his wife Lady Anne Cecil, daughter of William Cecil, 2nd Earl"
"the pre-eminent British diaries of the 20th century and a noteworthy source on British political history from 1930 through the 1950s, particularly in regard to the run-up to World War II and the war itself: Nicolson served in high enough echelons to write of the workings of the circles of power and the day-to-day unfolding of great events. (His fellow parliamentarian Robert Bernays aptly characterized Nicolson as being ""...a national figure of the second degree."") Nicolson was variously an acquaintance, associate, friend, or intimate to such figures as Ramsay MacDonald, David Lloyd George, Alfred Duff Cooper, Charles de Gaulle, Anthony"
"William Batten Sir William Batten (1600/1601 – c. 1667) was an English naval officer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1667. As Surveyor of the Navy, he was a colleague of Samuel Pepys, who disliked him and regularly disparaged him in his famous Diary. Batten was the son of Andrew Batten of Somerset, master in the Royal Navy. In 1625 he was stated to be one of the commanders of two ships sent on a whaling voyage to Spitsbergen by the Yarmouth merchant Thomas Horth. In August 1626 he took out letters of marque"
"Thomas Cromwell (Parliamentary diarist) Thomas Cromwell (c. 1540 – c. 1611), was an English Member of Parliament during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. His diaries of proceedings in the House of Commons are an important source for historians of parliamentary history during the period when he was a member, and Sir John Neale draws heavily upon them in his ground-breaking two-volume study of ""Elizabeth I and Her Parliaments"" (1953–1957). Thomas Cromwell was the third son of Gregory Cromwell, 1st Baron Cromwell and Elizabeth Seymour, sister to Jane Seymour, third wife of Henry VIII. He was the grandson of statesman"
"James II) in 1662 and Keeper of the Privy Purse to the King three years later, thanks to the influence of Charles's mistress, Barbara Palmer (""née"" Villiers), Countess of Castlemaine. Castlemaine wanted to ensure that the Keeper was an ally; this would ensure that the payments due to her would become a high priority. He was nominated by the Duke of York as MP for Winchelsea; however, he lost the election. He joined the Countess of Castlemaine to bring down Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon in 1667. In 1670 he was elected MP for Midhurst, sitting until 1679, and in"
"under the supervision of Sir Henry James at the Ordnance Survey. In the ""Remembrancer"" Smith promoted Domesday Book as being the story of free Englishmen in a free England and expressed a desire that every man who cared about the well-being of his country should possess a copy and be familiar with its content. He actively encouraged subscribers and accused gentlemen who did not subscribe to the photo-zincographic ""Domesday"" of being unpatriotic and benighted. The laborious task of conducting the ""Remembrancer"" combined with Smith's other responsibilities including his legal practice has been blamed for his deteriorating health. Smith drowned in"
"Lewis Dyve Sir Lewis Dyve (1599–1669) was an English Member of Parliament and a Royalist adherent during the English Civil War. His surname is sometimes also spelt Dive or Dives. Dyve was born on 3 November 1599. He was the son of Sir John Dyve and Beatrix Walcot, who married secondly John Digby, 1st Earl of Bristol. Dyve, who had an estate at Bromham in Bedfordshire, was knighted in 1620 and was one of the attendants of Prince Charles during his time at Madrid. He was elected MP for Bridport in the Parliaments of 1625 and 1626, and for Weymouth"
"government the same year, when they were made available in the Public Record Office in London. At the turn of the 21st century a forensic examination of the diaries was commissioned by Bill McCormack, Professor of Literary History at Goldsmiths College, University of London. The documents were examined by Audrey Giles, a leading forensic handwriting examiner, who concluded, according to a report in ""The Guardian"", that ""the handwriting, ink, paper, pen strokes and pencillings were all genuine."" McCormack published a book on Maloney and the diaries in 2002. All the diaries, including for the first time the 1911 volume which"
"of a diary of the action of the English troops in France in 1591. It proceeds day by day through two periods, 13 August to 6 September, and 3 October to 24 December, when it abruptly terminates. The original manuscript is among the Harleian Manuscripts at the British Library. It was first printed and carefully edited by J. G. Nichols in the first volume of the Camden Society's ""Miscellanies"" (1847). Internal evidence alone gives the clue to the authorship. Thomas Coningsby Sir Thomas Coningsby (died 1625) was an English soldier and Member of Parliament, notable for his diary of military"
"James Heath (historian) James Heath (1629–1664?) was an English royalist historian. He was a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, but deprived by Parliament. He went into exile with the future Charles II of England. On the Restoration of 1660 he was prevented from returning to his Christ Church studentship by his status as a married man, and he became a professional author. Heath's ""Chronicle of the Late Intestine Warr"", published in 1661 and dedicated to General Monck, portrays events similar to those of the English Revolution to come. It took aim at John Milton and Marchamont Nedham, among other Parliamentarians,"
"Narcissus Luttrell Narcissus Luttrell (1657–1732) was an English historian, diarist, and bibliographer, and briefly Member of Parliament for two different Cornish boroughs. His ""Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 to April 1714"", a chronicle of the Parliaments of England and Great Britain, was distilled from his diary and published in 1857, after Macauley had drawn attention to the manuscript in All Souls College, Oxford. Although Luttrell was for most of his life a private citizen and relied primarily on secondary sources for the workings of Parliament, he is often the best source available for legal and political"
"and Robert Sanderson. James Heath (historian) James Heath (1629–1664?) was an English royalist historian. He was a Student of Christ Church, Oxford, but deprived by Parliament. He went into exile with the future Charles II of England. On the Restoration of 1660 he was prevented from returning to his Christ Church studentship by his status as a married man, and he became a professional author. Heath's ""Chronicle of the Late Intestine Warr"", published in 1661 and dedicated to General Monck, portrays events similar to those of the English Revolution to come. It took aim at John Milton and Marchamont Nedham,"
"by Peter J. Tyldesley, had been seriously damaged while in the custody of the British Library to which it had been entrusted for safekeeping. Tyldesley Diary The Tyldesley diary was a diary kept by Thomas Tyldesley of Fox Hall, Lancashire (1657–1715), a Catholic recusant and Jacobite sympathiser, between 1712 and 1714. The diary is a valuable historical source for the light it sheds on the daily lives and routines of the Lancastrian gentry of the age and, in particular, during the period immediately before the Jacobite rising of 1715 – Lancashire being one of the heartlands of such support for"
"centuries. in the House of Commons. Sir Edmund served as an MP for Minehead and Bridgwater as did his brother Sir Francis Wyndham, 1st Baronet. Charles' oldest brother, Sir Hugh Wyndham (1624-1671). and younger brother Thomas Wyndham, were also MPs. Sir Edmund was a royalist who supported Kings Charles I and Charles II. Sir Francis, a colonel, helped Charles II escape after his defeat at Dunster Castle. The family went abroad after the end of the English Civil War, and Wyndham served as a Page of Honour to the exiled Charles II until 1660. Wyndham continued his career at court"
"Sir John Dalrymple, 4th Baronet Sir John Dalrymple of Cousland, 4th Baronet FRSE FSA(Scot) (1726 – 26 February 1810) was a Scottish advocate, judge, chemist and author. He is best known for his ""Memoirs of Great Britain and Ireland from the dissolution of the last parliament of Charles II until the sea battle of La Hogue"", first published in 1771. A new edition of 1790 carried on to the capture of the French and Spanish navies at Vigo. The Dalrymples formed a dynasty among the legal profession in Scotland. Although a central figures in the Scottish Enlightenment and a friend"