When he was 22, Pepys married fourteen-year-old Elisabeth de St Michel, a descendant of French Huguenot immigrants, first in a religious ceremony on 10 October 1655 and later in a civil ceremony on 1 December 1655 at St Margaret's, Westminster. Later in 1654 or early in 1655, he entered the household of one of his father's cousins, Sir Edward Montagu, who was later created the 1st Earl of Sandwich. In October, he was admitted as a sizar to Magdalene College he moved there in March 1651 and took his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1654. In 1650, he went to the University of Cambridge, having received two exhibitions from St Paul's School (perhaps owing to the influence of George Downing, who was chairman of the judges and for whom he later worked at the Exchequer) and a grant from the Mercers' Company. Stipple engraving by James Thomson, after a 1666 painting (now destroyed) by John Hayls. He attended the execution of Charles I in 1649. In about 1644, Pepys attended Huntingdon Grammar School before being educated at St Paul's School, London, c. Pepys did not spend all of his infancy in London for a while, he was sent to live with nurse Goody Lawrence at Kingsland, just north of the city. He was baptised at St Bride's Church on 3 March 1633. 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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