[Philip, Duke of Anjou, afterwards Duke of Orleans, brother of Louis XIV. (born 1640, died 1701), married the Princess Henrietta, youngest daughter of Charles I., who was born June 16th, 1664, at Exeter.  She was known as “La belle Henriette.”  In May, 1670, she came to Dover on a political mission from Louis XIV. to her brother Charles ii., but the visit was undertaken much against the wish of her husband.  Her death occurred on her return to France, and was attributed to poison.  It was the occasion of one of the finest of Bossuet’s “Oraisons Funebres.”]

desire to marry the Princesse Henrietta.  Hugh Peters is said to be taken,

[Hugh Peters, born at Fowey, Cornwall, and educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduated M.A. 1622.  He was tried as one of the regicides, and executed.  A broadside, entitled “The Welsh Hubub, or the Unkennelling and earthing of Hugh Peters that crafty Fox,” was printed October 3rd, 1660.]

and the Duke of Gloucester is ill, and it is said it will prove the small-pox.

6th.  To Whitehall by water with Sir W. Batten, and in our passage told me how Commissioner Pett did pay himself for the entertainment that he did give the King at Chatham at his coming in, and 20s. a day all the time he was in Holland, which I wonder at, and so I see there is a great deal of envy between the two.  At Whitehall I met with Commissioner Pett, who told me how Mr. Coventry and Fairbank his solicitor are falling out, one complaining of the other for taking too great fees, which is too true.  I find that Commissioner Pett is under great discontent, and is loth to give too much money for his place, and so do greatly desire me to go along with him in what we shall agree to give Mr. Coventry, which I have promised him, but am unwilling to mix my fortune with him that is going down the wind.  We all met this morning and afterwards at the Admiralty, where our business is to ask provision of victuals ready for the ships in the Downs, which we did, Mr. Gauden promising to go himself thither and see it done.  Dined Will and I at my Lord’s upon a joint of meat that I sent Mrs. Sarah for.  Afterwards to my office and sent all my books to my Lord’s, in order to send them to my house that I now dwell in.  Home and to bed.

7th.  Not office day, and in the afternoon at home all the day, it being the first that I have been at home all day since I came hither.  Putting my papers, books and other things in order, and writing of letters.  This day my Lord set sail from the Downs for Holland.

8th.  All day also at home.  At night sent for by Sir W. Pen, with whom I sat late drinking a glass of wine and discoursing, and I find him to be a very sociable man, and an able man, and very cunning.

9th (Sunday).  In the morning with Sir W. Pen to church, and a very good sermon of Mr. Mills.  Home to dinner, and Sir W. Pen with me to such as I had, and it was very handsome, it being the first time that he ever saw my wife or house since we came hither.  Afternoon to church with my wife, and after that home, and there walked with Major Hart, who came to see me, in the garden, who tells me that we are all like to be speedily disbanded;