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lost and found at tiny thing
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history is to blame
He refused to take an oath of loyalty to William and cheerfully endured three periods in prison, enjoying his intellectual pursuits and the company of his friends between such episodes. He described himself as a Jacobite, and having spent his life as an insider, became, in his final years, an outsider and indeed he has remained such. Following his final release from prison he lived out his remaining years in comfortable retirement, surrounded, in his Buckingham Street house, by his books and music, in the company of his affectionate and talented partner Mary Skinner and overlooking that permanent and much loved presence in his life, the Thames. Pepys died peacefully in 1703.
dublin review of books
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