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.]

before him, and the crown too.  The King in his robes, bare-headed, which was very fine.  And after all had placed themselves, there was a sermon and the service; and then in the Quire at the high altar, the King passed through all the ceremonies of the Coronacon, which to my great grief I and most in the Abbey could not see.  The crown being put upon his head, a great shout begun, and he came forth to the throne, and there passed more ceremonies:  as taking the oath, and having things read to him by the Bishop; and his lords (who put on their caps as soon as the King put on his crown)

     [As yet barons had no coronet.  A grant of that outward mark of
     dignity was made to them by Charles soon after his coronation. 
     Queen Elizabeth had assigned coronets to viscounts.—­B.]

and bishops come, and kneeled before him.  And three times the King at Arms went to the three open places on the scaffold, and proclaimed, that if any one could show any reason why Charles Stewart should not be King of England, that now he should come and speak.  And a Generall Pardon also was read by the Lord Chancellor, and meddalls flung up and down by my Lord Cornwallis, of silver, but I could not come by any.  But so great a noise that I could make but little of the musique; and indeed, it was lost to every body.  But I had so great a lust to . . . . that I went out a little while before the King had done all his ceremonies, and went round