Diary, Oct/Nov/Dec 1660 | Page 6

not get one, and therefore I
proceeded on and came to my Lord before he went to chapel and so
went with him, where I heard Dr. Spurstow preach before the King a
poor dry sermon; but a very good anthem of Captn. Cooke's afterwards.
Going out of chapel I met with Jack Cole, my old friend (whom I had
not seen a great while before), and have promised to renew
acquaintance in London together. To my Lord's and dined with him; he
all dinner time talking French to me, and telling me the story how the
Duke of York hath got my Lord Chancellor's daughter with child,
[Anne Hyde, born March 12th, 1637, daughter of Edward, first Earl of
Clarendon. She was attached to the court of the Princess of Orange,
daughter of Charles I., 1654, and contracted to James, Duke of York, at
Breda, November 24th, 1659. The marriage was avowed in London
September 3rd, 1660. She joined the Church of Rome in 1669, and died
March 31st, 1671.]

and that she, do lay it to him, and that for certain he did promise her
marriage, and had signed it with his blood, but that he by stealth had
got the paper out of her cabinet. And that the King would have him to
marry her, but that he will not.
[The Duke of York married Anne Hyde, and he avowed the marriage
September 3rd, so that Pepys was rather behindhand in his
information.]
So that the thing is very bad for the Duke, and them all; but my Lord do
make light of it, as a thing that he believes is not a new thing for the
Duke to do abroad. Discoursing concerning what if the Duke should
marry her, my Lord told me that among his father's many old sayings
that he had wrote in a book of his, this is one--that he that do get a
wench with child and marry her afterwards is as if a man should ---- in
his hat and then clap it on his head. I perceive my Lord is grown a man
very indifferent in all matters of religion, and so makes nothing of these
things. After dinner to the Abbey, where I heard them read the church-
service, but very ridiculously, that indeed I do not in myself like it at all.
A poor cold sermon of Dr. Lamb's, one of the prebends, in his habit,
came afterwards, and so all ended, and by my troth a pitiful sorry
devotion that these men pay. So walked home by land, and before
supper I read part of the Marian persecution in Mr. Fuller. So to supper,
prayers, and to bed.

8th. Office day, and my wife being gone out to buy some household
stuff, I dined all alone, and after dinner to Westminster, in my way
meeting Mr. Moore coming to me, who went back again with me
calling at several places about business, at my father's about gilded
leather for my dining room, at Mr. Crew's about money, at my Lord's
about the same, but meeting not Mr. Sheply there I went home by water,
and Mr. Moore with me, who staid and supped with me till almost 9 at
night. We love one another's discourse so that we cannot part when we
do meet. He tells me that the profit of the Privy Seal is much fallen, for
which I am very sorry. He gone and I to bed.

9th. This morning Sir W. Batten with Colonel Birch to Deptford, to pay
off two ships. Sir W. Pen and I staid to do business, and afterwards
together to White Hall, where I went to my Lord, and found him in bed

not well, and saw in his chamber his picture,--[Lord Sandwich's portrait
by Lely, see post, 22nd of this same month.]--very well done; and am
with child
[A figurative expression for an eager longing desire, used by Udall and
by Spenser. The latest authority given by Dr. Murray in the "New
English Dictionary," is Bailey in 1725.]
till I get it copied out, which I hope to do when he is gone to sea. To
Whitehall again, where at Mr. Coventry's chamber I met with Sir W.
Pen again, and so with him to Redriffe by water, and from thence
walked over the fields to Deptford (the first pleasant walk I have had a
great while), and in our way had a great deal of merry discourse, and
find him to be a merry fellow and pretty good natured, and sings very
bawdy songs. So we came and found our gentlemen and Mr. Prin at the
pay. About noon we dined together, and were very merry at table
telling of tales. After dinner to the pay of