Samuel Pepys and the Royal Navy

by J. R. Tanner

[[61]] Observations on the Navy and Sea Service (Works, viii. 336).

[[62]] Dictionary of National Biography, ii. 2-3.

[[63]] 'So home again, and in the evening news was brought that Sir R. Slingsby, our Comptroller, (who hath this day been sick a week) is dead; which put me into so great trouble of mind that all the night I could not sleep, he being a man that loved me, and had many qualities that made me love him above all the Officers and Commissioners in the Navy' (Diary, 26 October, 1661).

[[64]] Dictionary of National Biography, xxxvii. 253-4.

[[65]] Diary, 2 January, 1666.

[[66]] Ib. 20 August, 1666.

[[67]] Ib. 7 April, 1663; 5 October, 1663; 6 October, 1666; 4 January, 1669.

[[68]] Ib. 2 April, 1664.

[[69]] Dictionary of National Biography, i. 332.

[[70]] Pepys joined with Penn in recommending him as 'a most honest and understanding man, and fit for that place' (Diary, 5 October, 1667).