Roger Pepys

Roger Pepys (3 May 1617 – 4 October 1688) was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1661 to 1678.

[1] In the bitter and long drawn out inheritance dispute over the Brampton estate in Huntingdonshire, which Samuel inherited from his uncle Robert, Roger himself regretted that the ultimate settlement was far from favourable to Samuel, his client, although they agreed that it was better to settle the case then let it drag on.

Though not a republican, he was something of a Puritan, and his cousin Samuel in his Diary records his low opinion of the "young bloods" who dominated the Cavalier Parliament.

His cousin Samuel acknowledged that, whatever their differences, Roger had always loyally defended him from attacks on him in Parliament.

In 1679 he was removed from his post as recorder "for acting in conjunction with the factious party against the court and loyal interest".

His eldest son Talbot (died 1681), a barrister, and his daughters Bab and Betty were referred to in the diary of his cousin Samuel, as was their stepmother Esther.

Samuel Pepys was fond of both Bab and Betty, although he grumbled at the cost of entertaining them during their visit to his London house in February 1669.