in order to a trial, that did sit as judges in the late King’s death, and all the officers too attending the Court.  Sir John Lenthall moving in the House, that all that had borne arms against the King should be exempted from pardon, he was called to the bar of the House, and after a severe reproof he was degraded his knighthood.  At Court I find that all things grow high.  The old clergy talk as being sure of their lands again, and laugh at the Presbytery; and it is believed that the sales of the King’s and Bishops’ lands will never be confirmed by Parliament, there being nothing now in any man’s, power to hinder them and the King from doing what they have a mind, but every body willing to submit to any thing.  We expect every day to have the King and Duke on board as soon as it is fair.  My Lord do nothing now, but offers all things to the pleasure of the Duke as Lord High Admiral.  So that I am at a loss what to do.

22nd.  Up very early, and now beginning to be settled in my wits again, I went about setting down my last four days’ observations this morning.  After that, was trimmed by a barber that has not trimmed me yet, my Spaniard being on shore.  News brought that the two Dukes are coming on board, which, by and by, they did, in a Dutch boats the Duke of York in yellow trimmings, the Duke of Gloucester

[Henry, Duke of Gloucester, the youngest child of Charles L, born July 6th, 16—­, who, with his sister Elizabeth, was allowed a meeting with his father on the night before the King’s execution.  Burnet says:  “He was active, and loved business; was apt to have particular friendships, and had an insinuating temper which was generally very acceptable.  The King loved him much better than the Duke of York.”  He died of smallpox at Whitehall, September 13th, 1660, and was buried in Henry VII’s Chapel.]

in grey and red.  My Lord went in a boat to meet them, the Captain, myself, and others, standing at the entering port.  So soon as they were entered we shot the guns off round the fleet.  After that they went to view the ship all over, and were most exceedingly pleased with it.  They seem to be both very fine gentlemen.  After that done, upon the quarter-deck table, under the awning, the Duke of York and my Lord, Mr. Coventry,

[William Coventry, to whom Pepys became so warmly attached afterwards, was the fourth son of Thomas, first Lord Coventry, the Lord Keeper.  He was born in 1628, and entered at Queen’s College, Oxford, in 1642; after the Restoration he became private secretary to the Duke of York, his commission as Secretary to the Lord High Admiral not being conferred until 1664; elected M.P. for Great Yarmouth in 1661.  In 1662 he was appointed an extra Commissioner of the Navy, an office he held until 1667; in 1665, knighted and sworn a Privy Councillor, and, in 1667, constituted a Commissioner of the Treasury; but, having been forbid the court on account of his challenging the Duke