![]() He and his wife Elizabeth were both kind and hospitable to the young SP and EP. ![]() Sir Francis Boteler, Hertfordshire landowner, of the Woodhall estate adjoining Hatfield House with his second wife, Elizabeth, brought up her niece Mary Skinner. ![]() Later secretary to the East India Co., and stood bail for SP in 1690. Robert Blackborne, powerful secretary to the Admiralty commissioners under the commonwealth, lost job at Restoration, introduced his nephew Will Hewer to SP. Her younger brother, Wayneman Birch, worked for SP, sacked by him for bad behaviour and sent to the plantations. Jane Birch, SP’s first and favourite maid, worked for him on and off from the age of fourteen, married his clerk Tom Edwards, helped by SP when widowed. Thomas Betterton, actor – manager, the greatest of his time, much admired by SP. Sir William Batten, West Country sea captain of humble origins who rose to be surveyor of the navy before the civil war and, despite shifts of allegiance, was reappointed to the Navy Board in 1660, becoming SP’s colleague and neighbour. Sir John Banks, financier SP on friendly terms with his family in 1670s he testified before the House of Commons that SP was not a Catholic. William Bagwell, ship’s carpenter at Deptford, encouraged wife to offer herself to SP, which she did, in order to win promotion. Mary Ashwell, teacher in girls’ school before becoming EP’s companion skilful singer, dancer and card-player. ![]() ![]() SP stands for Samuel Pepys EP for Elizabeth Pepys. ![]()
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