niece, Fanshawe, then lay in the Strand, where I stood to see the
King's entry with his brothers; surely the most pompous show that ever
was, for the hearts of all men in this kingdom moved at his will.

The next day I went with other ladies of the family to congratulate
his Majesty's happy arrival, who received me with great grace, and
promised me future favours to my husband and self. His Majesty gave my
husband his picture, set with small diamonds, when he was a child: it
is a great rarity, because there never was but one. We took a house in
Portugal Row, Lincoln's-inn Fields. My husband had not long entered
upon his office, but he found an oppression from Secretary Nicholas,
to his great vexation, for he, as much as in him lay, engrossed all
the petitions, which really, by the foundation, belonged to the Master
of the Requests; and in this he was countenanced by Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, his great patron, notwithstanding he had married Sir Thomas
Aylesbury's daughter, that was one of the Masters of the Requests.

This year I sent for my daughter Nan from my sister Boteler's, in
Kent, where I had left her; and my daughter Mary died in Hertfordshire
in August, and lies buried in Hertford church, in my father's vault.

In the latter end of the summer I miscarried, when I was near half
gone with child, of three sons, two hours one after the other. I think
it was with the hurry of business I then was in, and perpetual company
that resorted to us of all qualities, some for kindness and some for
their own advantage.

As that was a time of advantage, so it was of great expense, for on
April the 23rd, 1661, the King was crowned, when my husband, being in
waiting, rode upon his Majesty's left hand [Footnote: Evelyn says,