Excerpt from Report on the Pepys Manuscripts: Preserved at Magdalene College, Cambridge The majority, at least, of these Papers belonged to John Evelyn, who on November 24, 1665, showed his collection to Pepys (pepys' Diary under date). Writing to Wotton on September 12, 1703, Evelyn explains that they came into his possession through his wife's family. He married Mary, daughter and sole heiress of Sir Richard Brown, who was Clerk of the Council to Charles I and his successor. Having been sent as ambassador to Paris in 1641, he remained there till the Restoration. From him, therefore, must have come most of the Stuart Papers. He was grandson of the Sir Richard Brown (ob. 1604) who had been introduced to official life by Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, to, or by, whom most of the Elizabethan Papers are written. That the elder Sir Richard was the source of these is confirmed by the gap in the series from about the date of his death till 1624. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.