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SAMUEL PEPYS
AND THE
ROYAL NAVY
LEES KNOWLES LECTURES DELIVERED
AT TRINITY COLLEGE IN CAMBRIDGE,
6, 13, 20 and 27 NOVEMBER, 1919
BY
J. R. TANNER, Litt.D.
FELLOW OF ST JOHN'S COLLEGE
CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
1920
In 1919 the writer was appointed by the Master andFellows of Trinity College, Cambridge, Lees KnowlesLecturer in Military and Naval History for the academicalyear 1919-20, and the lectures are now printed almost exactlyin the form in which they were delivered in November,1919.
The object of the Lecturer was to present in a convenientform the general conclusions about the administration of theRoyal Navy from the Restoration to the Revolution arrivedat in the introductory volume of his Catalogue of PepysianManuscripts, published by the Navy Records Society in 1903with a dedication, in the two hundredth year after his death,'to the memory of Samuel Pepys, a great public servant.'The evidence there collected shews that Pepys, familiarto the last generation in the sphere of literature, was also aleading figure in an entirely different world, who renderedinestimable services to naval administration in spite of thepeculiar difficulties under which he worked. These conclusions,with a part of the evidence on which they depend, aresummarised in the present volume.
Thanks are due to the Master and Fellows of TrinityCollege for encouraging the enterprise; to the Council of theNavy Records Society for permission to use the materialalready published in the Society's series; to the Delegatesof the Oxford Clarendon Press for allowing the author touse and quote from his Introduction to the reprint of Pepys'sMemoires of the Royal Navy, 1679-88, issued in the Tudorand Stuart Library in 1906; and to Messrs Sidgwick andJackson for a similar permission to use the Introduction tothe section o