Mrs.Evelyn was promised the appointment of lady of the jewels to the future Queen, which she never received; and Evelyn might have had the honour of knighthood of the Bath, but declined it.

He was present at the Coronation in Westminster Abbey on St.
George's Day, 1661, and had prepared and printed a _Panegyric_ poem on the occasion, a screed of bombastic doggerel in fulsome praise of the King.

He was a frequent visitor at the Court, and loved to sun himself in the royal presence.

One of the finest examples of this feature of Evelyn's character is his _Fumifugium_, published in 1661, which will be more particularly referred to later on, a work which marks the real commencement of his literary career.
In 1661, also, Evelyn wrote a pamphlet entitled _Tyrannus or the Mode_, an invective against 'our so much affecting the French' in dress, and he was pleased with the idea that afterwards, in 1666, a change in costume then adopted by the King and court was due to this cause.

He, too, donned and went to office in 'the vest and surcoat and tunic as 'twas call'd, after his Majesty had brought the whole Court to it.