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Admitted 29 October, 1609.

Second son of John Pepys of Cottenham, co. Cambridge, and of the Middle Temple. He was called to the Bar 7 Feb. 1616. He sat in the Short Parliament of 1639—40 for Sudbury, Suffolk. In 1643—4 he was Treasurer of the Inn, and his Arms are in the Hall. In 1654 he became Serjeant-at-Law, and in the same year a Baron of the Exchequer. He was subsequently Chief Commissioner of the Great Seal in Ireland, and died in Dublin 2 Jan. 1658-9. He was a direct ancestor of Lord Cottenham (Charles Pepys), Lord Chancellor (1836). In 1658, the year before his death, he made a donation of fifty pounds for the purchase of books for the Library.

Admitted 10 August, 1615.

His parentage is not given in the Register, but he was the son of Henry, ninth Earl. He was created a K.B. the year following his admission, being then but fourteen years of age. He succeeded his father in 1632. He received from Charles I. the Order of the Garter, and was made Admiral of the Fleet in 1636, and raised to the dignity of Lord High Admiral in 1638. At the outbreak of the Civil War he at first took the part of the King, but gradually drew away to the side of the Opposition, and in 1642 supported the Parliament. He opposed, however, extreme measures against the King, and acquiesced in the Restoration. He died 13 Oct. 1668.

Admitted 12 May, 1597.

"Seventh son of Henry, late Earl of Northumberland, and brother of Henry (q.v.), late Earl of Northumberland." He was admitted with his brother Alan on the same day. He was born 4 Sept. 1580, and was, therefore, seventeen at his admission. He served in the Low Countries, and took an active part in the colonization of America. In 1609 he was made Deputy-Governour of Virginia. He returned to England in 1612, and subsequently served again in the Netherlands. He died in 1632.

He took a leading part in the controversy between Captain John Smith and the Virginian Settlers, and wrote an answer to Smith's General History, entitled A true Relation of Occurrents in Virginia. He also wrote a Discourse of the Plantation, which is printed in Hakluyt's Voyages.

Admitted 28 April, 1594.

He is styled in the Register "Henry, Earl of Northumberland, Knight of the Garter," and he was admitted with his younger brother Sir Charles Percy on the same day. He was a volunteer under the Earl of Leicester in the Low Countries, and active in the defeat of the Spanish Armada. He was subsequently imprisoned for supposed implication in the Gunpowder Plot, and sentenced to a fine of £30,000. In prison he occupied himself in mathematical studies, in which he become so deeply versed as to acquire the name of "Henry the Wizard." He was released after fifteen years, in 1621, and died 5 Nov. 1632.