“Hang up all the poor hop-drinkers,
               Cries old Sim, the king of skinkers.”

Ben Jonson, Verses over the door into the Apollo.]

the vintner, at the Devil; in Fleetstreet, did lead a fine company of soldiers, all young comely men, in white doublets.  There followed the Vice-Chamberlain, Sir G. Carteret, a company of men all like Turks; but I know not yet what they are for.  The streets all gravelled, and the houses hung with carpets before them, made brave show, and the ladies out of the windows, one of which over against us I took much notice of, and spoke of her, which made good sport among us.  So glorious was the show with gold and silver, that we were not able to look at it, our eyes at last being so much overcome with it.  Both the King and the Duke of York took notice of us, as he saw us at the window.  The show being ended, Mr. Young did give us a dinner, at which we were very merry, and pleased above imagination at what we have seen.  Sir W. Batten going home, he and I called and drunk some mum

[Mum.  Ale brewed with wheat at Brunswick.

              “Sedulous and stout
               With bowls of fattening mum.”

J. Phillips, Cyder, Vol. ii. p. 231.]

and laid our wager about my Lady Faulconbridge’s name,

[Mary, third daughter of Oliver Cromwell, and second wife of Thomas
Bellasis, second Viscount Fauconberg, created Earl of Fauconberg,
April 9th, 1689.]

which he says not to be Mary, and so I won above 20s.  So home, where Will and the boy staid and saw the show upon Towre Hill, and Jane at T. Pepys’s, The.  Turner, and my wife at Charles Glassecocke’s, in Fleet Street.  In the evening by water to White Hall to my Lord’s, and there I spoke with my Lord.  He talked with me about his suit, which was made in France, and cost him L200, and very rich it is with embroidery.  I lay with Mr. Shepley, and

Coronacionday.

23d.  About 4 I rose and got to the Abbey, where I followed Sir J. Denham, the Surveyor, with some company that he was leading in.  And with much ado, by the favour of Mr. Cooper, his man, did get up into a great scaffold across the North end of the Abbey, where with a great deal of patience I sat from past 4 till 11 before the King came in.  And a great pleasure it was to see the Abbey raised in the middle, all covered with red, and a throne (that is a chair) and footstool on the top of it; and all the officers of all kinds, so much as the very fidlers, in red vests.  At last comes in the Dean and Prebends of Westminster, with the Bishops (many of them in cloth of gold copes), and after them the Nobility, all in their Parliament robes, which was a most magnificent sight.  Then the Duke, and the King with a scepter (carried by my Lord Sandwich) and sword and mond

     [Mond or orb of gold, with a cross set with precious stones, carried
     by the Duke of Buckingham.]