7th (Lord’s day).  To White Hall on foot, calling at my father’s to change my long black cloak for a short one (long cloaks being now quite out); but he being gone to church, I could 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.