Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Pepys’s friend & maybe James Pearse’s
Serving under Mountagu in the Navy, he socializes, naturally enough, with other Mountagu men.
24 Jan. 1660
He comes late to the rowdy party at the Pearses’ with navy clerk James Southerne, bearing political news (maybe he isn’t that close to Pearse after all). He is a “lieutenant of my Lord’s ship” even then.3 March 1660
He, Pearse and Mountagu’s men Will Howe and John Creed all meet up with Pepys and go with him to the Sun Tavern.5 April 1660
A lieutenant on the Naseby for the trip to Holland in April, Lambert invites Pepys, Howe, Pearse, Balthasar (Pepys’s brother-in-law) and Nathaniel Ibbot to have supper in his cabin. This is Lambert’s third appearance socializing with Pearse and Pepys, second with Howe. -
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1660 Lieutenant on the Naseby
1661 Captain on the Norwich
1664 Captain on the Hopeful— Robert Latham’s Companion volume (10) to the Latham & Matthews edition of the diary
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11 April 1660
“I staid the lieutenant late, shewing him my manner of keeping a journal.”“…Pepys guarded [the diary] carefully, and says he mentioned its existence to only two people, Lieutenant Lambert, the young naval officer he first met in the Baltic, to whom he showed “my manner of keeping a journall” in the spring of 1660, and much later a descreet and trusted senior colleague, William Coventry.”
From Claire Tomalin, “Samuel Pepys: An Unequalled Self,” p. 80.
It was Lieutenant Lambert who entertained Pepys aboard the Naseby in 1659 when he arrived by ketch with a packet of letters for Montagu.