Pepys was the fifth of eleven children, but child mortality was high and he was soon the oldest survivor. His father's first cousin Sir Richard Pepys was elected MP for Sudbury in 1640, appointed Baron of the Exchequer on, and appointed Lord Chief Justice of Ireland on 25 September 1655. His great uncle Talbot Pepys was Recorder and briefly Member of Parliament (MP) for Cambridge in 1625. Pepys was born in Salisbury Court, Fleet Street, London, on 23 February 1633, the son of John Pepys (1601–1680), a tailor, and Margaret Pepys ( née Kite died 1667), daughter of a Whitechapel butcher. The Pepys arms are borne by the Pepys family, Earls of Cottenham Samuel Pepys was descended from John Pepys who married Elizabeth Talbot, the heiress of Cottenham in Cambridgeshire. 1680–1690, with arms of Samuel Pepys: Quarterly 1st & 4th: Sable, on a bend or between two nag's heads erased argent three fleurs-de-lis of the field (Pepys ) 2nd & 3rd: Gules, a lion rampant within a bordure engrailed or (Talbot ).
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