that at the coronation of Charles the Second were "Two persons,
representing the Dukes of Normandy and Aquitaine, viz., Sir Richard
Fanshawe and Sir Herbert Price, in fantastic habits."-Diary, vol. ii.
p. 168.] with very rich footcloths, and four men in very rich
liveries; and this year we furnished our house and paid all our debts
which we had contracted during the war.

The 8th day of May following, the King rode to the Parliament, and
then my husband rode in the same manner. His Majesty had commanded my
husband to execute the place of the Chancellor of the Garter, both
because he understood it better than any, and was to have the
reversion of it. The first feast of St. George, my husband was proxy
for the Earl of Bristol, and was installed for him Knight of the
Garter. The Duke of Buckingham put on his robes, and the Duke of
Ormond his spurs, in the stall of the Earl of Bristol.

Now it was the business of the Chancellor to put your father as far
from the King as he could, because his ignorance in state affairs was
daily discovered by your father, who showed it to the King; but at
that time the King was so content that he should almost and alone
manage his affairs, that he might have more time for his pleasure,
that his faults were not so visible as otherwise they would have been,
and afterwards proved. But now he sends to your father and tells him
that he was, by the King's particular choice, resolved on to be sent
to Lisbon with the King's letter and picture to the Princess, now our
Queen, which then, indeed, was an employment any nobleman would be
glad of; but the design from that time forth was to fix him here.

When your father was gone on this errand, I stayed in our house in
Portugal Row, and at Christmas I received the New Year's gifts