Propriety did not prevent him from engaging in a number of extramarital liaisons with various women that were chronicled in his diary, often in some detail when relating the intimate details. The most dramatic of these encounters was with Deborah Willet, a young woman engaged as a companion for Elisabeth Pepys. On 25 October 1668, Pepys was surprised by his wife as he embraced Deb Willet; he writes that his wife "coming up suddenly, did find me imbracing the girl con [with] my hand sub [under] su [her] coats; and endeed I was with my main [hand] in her cunny. I was at a wonderful loss upon it and the girl also...." Following this event, he was characteristically filled with remorse, but (equally characteristically) continued to pursue Willet after she had been dismissed from the Pepys household. [38] Pepys also had a habit of fondling the breasts of his maid Mary Mercer while she dressed him in the morning. [39] Elizabeth Pepys (“Betty”) 2 (1651–1716)+ (1680)+ Charles Long, fellow of Caius College and rector of Risby (Suff.) That being done, I went to Mr. Crew’s, where I had left my boy, and so with him and Mr. Moore (who would go a little way with me home, as he will always do) to the Hercules Pillars to drink, where we did read over the King’s declaration in matters of religion, which is come out to-day, which is very well penned, I think to the satisfaction of most people. In the introductory passage of the diary, written as the new decade of the 1660s opened, we immediately hit upon important aspects of Pepys’s life and his habits of recording it: In the early hours of 2 September 1666, Pepys was awakened by Jane the maid, his servant, who had spotted a fire in the Billingsgate area. He decided that the fire was not particularly serious and returned to bed. Shortly after waking, his servant returned and reported that 300 houses had been destroyed and that London Bridge was threatened. Pepys went to the Tower of London to get a better view. Without returning home, he took a boat and observed the fire for over an hour. In his diary, Pepys recorded his observations as follows:

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Pepys was an investor in the Company of Royal Adventurers Trading to Africa, which held the Royal monopoly on trading along the west coast of Africa in gold, silver, ivory, and slaves. [37] Sexual relations [ edit ]

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The text we have used for Pepys’ diary has been taken from a 1893 edition, edited by Henry B Wheatley. This version, and others since, has been translated from Samuel Pepys’ original shorthand version. Thomas Pepys (“the Executor”), lawyer (1611–1675)(1) + (1654)+ Anne Cope(2) + (1660)+ Ursula Stapleton (? – c. 1693) Samuel Pepys FAQ". pepys.info. Archived from the original on 22 May 2017 . Retrieved 17 September 2015.

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Blessed be God, at the end of the last year I was in very good health, without any sense of my old pain but upon taking of cold. Pepys coded passages". pepys.info. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 17 September 2015. Foxen, David (1963). "Libertine Literature in England, 1660-1745". The Book Collector. 12 (1): 21–35. (spring) Nine years after he began, Samuel Pepys stopped writing because he thought he was losing his eyesight. All of these editions omitted passages (chiefly about Pepys' sexual adventures) that the editors thought were too obscene ever to be printed. Wheatley, in the preface to his edition, noted, "a few passages which cannot possibly be printed. It may be thought by some that these omissions are due to an unnecessary squeamishness, but it is not really so, and readers are therefore asked to have faith in the judgement of the editor." Wheatley claims to have indicated all such omissions with an ellipsis, but comparison with the modern text indicates that he did not always do this, and that he silently bowdlerised a number of words. [61]

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Pepys was the fifth of 11 children, but child mortality was high and he was soon the oldest survivor. [10] He was baptised at St Bride's Church on 3 March 1633. [8] Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London; for a while, he was sent to live with nurse Goody Lawrence at Kingsland, just north of the city. [8] In about 1644, Pepys attended Huntingdon Grammar School before being educated at St Paul's School, London, c. 1646–1650. [8] He attended the execution of Charles I in 1649. [8] Elisabeth de St Michel, Pepys' wife. Stipple engraving by James Thomson, after a 1666 painting (now destroyed) by John Hayls. [11] Pepys' reference to purchasing the pornographic book L'Escole des Filles appears to be the first English reference to pornography. He writes in his diary that it was a "mighty lewd book," and burned it after reading it. [42] Text of the diary [ edit ] Outbreaks of plague were not unusual events in London; major epidemics had occurred in 1592, 1603, 1625 and 1636. [29] Furthermore, Pepys was not among the group of people who were most at risk. He did not live in cramped housing, he did not routinely mix with the poor, and he was not required to keep his family in London in the event of a crisis. [30] It was not until June 1665 that the unusual seriousness of the plague became apparent, so Pepys' activities in the first five months of 1665 were not significantly affected by it. [30] Claire Tomalin wrote that 1665 was, to Pepys, one of the happiest years of his life. He worked very hard that year, and the outcome was that he quadrupled his fortune. [30] In his annual summary on 31 December, he wrote, "I have never lived so merrily (besides that I never got so much) as I have done this plague time". [31] This was the world of Samuel Pepys, Clerk of the Acts to the Navy Board and diarist. He had grown up in the city and, with a talent for administration and hard work, was a rising star in the English Admiralty of King Charles II. The diary he kept for nearly ten years from 1660 eventually became one of Britain's most celebrated and a unique records of everyday life for an upper middle-class person in Stuart England. Historians have long admired Pepys' diary because it features many minor day-to-day happenings that other contemporary documents do not cover. Thank you for such a generous comment!This is the first time someone asked me about the writing process of my game and I'm not sure where to start. Still, I'll try to answer as best as I can.