Samuel Pepys and the Second Dutch War

The originals of these documents, Pepys’s Navy White Book and his Brooke House Papers, were preserved by Pepys in his library which he left in his will to Magdalene College, Cambridge where they have been kept as he left them to this day. Here transcribed from Pepys‘s shorthand by William Matthews and Charles Knighton, they represent one of the most important surviving records relating to the Second Dutch War. Lasting from 1665 to 1667, it culminated in the humiliating Dutch raid on the Medway w