This paper will discuss the diary of Samuel Pepys and seek to critique the nature of the diaries that he had written in the 17th century England. By analyzing his view of the Reformation in England, we can see the contrasts and early measures of historian that Pepys seems to foreshadow in his writings, and does not capture in a historical sense the more solid basis 'historians' may nowadays. 3 pgs. Bibliography lists 2 sources.