title: Traitor to the Crown: The Untold Story of the Popish Plot and the Consipiracy Against Samuel Pepys
author: James D. Long
description: <span>"As gripping as any thriller." --<i><i>The Times</i>(London)</i></span><br /><br /><span>"I couldn't put it down, and there aren't many books on the seventeeth century you can say that about." --<i><i>History Today</i></i></span>
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  # Diary of Samuel Pepys, Apr/May 1668
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Samuel Pepys
  
  
  This page copyright © 2001 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  MAY 1669
  
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  
  
  
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      This etext was produced by David Widger  widger@cecomet.net
  
  
  April 1st. Up, and with Colonel Middleton, at the desire of
  
  
  Rear-Admiral Kempthorne, the President, for our assisting them, to the
  
  
  Court-martiall on board a yacht in the River here, to try the business
  
  
  of the Purser's complaints, Baker against Trevanion, his Commander, of
  
  
  "The Dartmouth." But, Lord! to see what wretched doings there were
  
  
  among all the Commanders to ruin the Purser, and defend the Captain in
  
  
  all his rogueries, be it to the prejudice of the King or Purser, no
  
  
  good man could bear! I confess I was pretty high, which did not at
  
  
  least the young gentlemen Commander like; and Middleton did the like.
  
  
  But could not bring it to any issue this day, sitting till two
  
  
  o'clock; an