“He was a _pollard_ man, without the _top_ (_i. e._ the reason as the source of ideas, or immediate yet not sensuous truths, having their evidence in themselves; or the imagination or idealizing power, by symbols mediating between the reason and the understanding), but on this account more broadly and luxuriantly branching out from the upper trunk.”--COLERIDGE’s MS. note in his copy of the “Diary” (_Notes and Queries_, 1st S. vol. vi. p. 215). Samuel Pepys was the first of a well-established stock to make a name in the outer world, but since his time the family can boast of having had amongst its members a Court physician, a bishop, and a lord chancellor.…
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