21st (Lord’s day).  In the morning we were troubled to hear it rain as it did, because of the great show tomorrow.  After I was ready I walked to my father’s and there found the late maid to be gone and another come by my mother’s choice, which my father do not like, and so great difference there will be between my father and mother about it.  Here dined Doctor Thos.  Pepys and Dr. Fayrebrother; and all our talk about to-morrow’s show, and our trouble that it is like to be a wet day.  After dinner comes in my coz.  Snow and his wife, and I think stay there till the show be over.  Then I went home, and all the way is so thronged with people to see the triumphal arches, that I could hardly pass for them.  So home, people being at church, and I got home unseen, and so up to my chamber and saw done these last five or six days’ diarys.  My mind a little troubled about my workmen, which, being foreigners,—­[Foreigners were workmen dwelling outside the city.]—­are like to be troubled by a couple of lazy rogues that worked with me the other day, that are citizens, and so my work will be hindered, but I must prevent it if I can.

22d.  King’s going from ye Tower to white hall.

     [The king in the early morning of the 22nd went from Whitehall to
     the Tower by water, so that he might proceed from thence through the
     City to Westminster Abbey, there to be crowned.]

Up early and made myself as fine as I could, and put on my velvet coat, the first day that I put it on, though made half a year ago.  And being ready, Sir W. Batten, my Lady, and his two daughters and his son and wife, and Sir W. Pen and his son and I, went to Mr. Young’s, the flag-maker, in Corne-hill;

     [The members of the Navy Office appear to have chosen Mr. Young’s
     house on account of its nearness to the second triumphal arch,
     situated near the Royal Exchange, which was dedicated to the Navy.]

and there we had a good room to ourselves, with wine and good cake, and saw the show very well.  In which it is impossible to relate the glory of this day, expressed in the clothes of them that rid, and their horses and horses clothes, among others, my Lord Sandwich’s.  Embroidery and diamonds were ordinary among them.  The Knights of the Bath was a brave sight of itself; and their Esquires, among which Mr. Armiger was an Esquire to one of the Knights.  Remarquable were the two men that represent the two Dukes of Normandy and Aquitane.  The Bishops come next after Barons, which is the higher place; which makes me think that the next Parliament they will be called to the House of Lords.  My Lord Monk rode bare after the King, and led in his hand a spare horse, as being Master of the Horse.  The King, in a most rich embroidered suit and cloak, looked most noble.  Wadlow,

[Simon Wadlow was the original of “old Sir Simon the king,” the
favourite air of Squire Western in “Tom Jones.”