Dover to attend the coming over of the King So my Lord did give order for weighing anchor, which we did, and sailed all day.

13th To the quarter-deck, at which the taylors and painters were at work, cutting out some pieces of yellow cloth in the fashion of a crown and C R and put it upon a fine sheet and that into the flag instead of the State’s arms, which after dinner was finished and set up. This morn Sir J Boys and Capt Isham met us in the Nonsuch, the first of whom, after a word or two with my Lord, went forward, the other staid I heard by them how Mr Downing had never made any address to the King, and for that was hated exceedingly by the Court, and that he was in a Dutch ship which sailed by us, then going to England with disgrace. Also how Mr Morland⁸⁸ was knighted by the King this week, and that the King did give the reason of it openly, that it was for his giving him intelligence all the time he was clerk to Secretary Thurloe In the afternoon a council of war, only to acquaint them that the Harp must be taken out of all their flags, It being very offensive to the King Late at night we writ letters to the King of the news of our coming, and Mr Edward Pickering⁸⁹ carried them Capt Isham went on shore, nobody showing of him any respect, so the old man very fairly took leave of my Lord, and my Lord very coldly bid him ‘God be with you’, which was very strange, but that I hear that he keeps a great deal of prating and talking on shore, on board, at the King’s Courts, what command he had with my Lord, &c.

14th In the morning the Hague was clearly to be seen by us My Lord went up in his nightgown into the cuddy, to see how to dispose thereof for himself and us that belong to him, to give order for our removal to-day Some nasty Dutchmen came on board to proffer their boats to carry things from us on shore, &c to get money by us Before noon some gentlemen came on board from the shore to kiss my Lord’s hands And by and by Mr North and Dr Clerke went to kiss the Queen of Bohemia’s hands, from my Lord, with twelve attendants from on board to wait on them, among which I sent my boy, who, like myself, is with child to see any strange thing After noon they came back again after having kissed the Queen of Bohemia’s⁹⁰ hand, and were sent again by my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange⁹¹ So I got the Captain to ask leave for me to go, which my Lord did give, and I taking my boy and Judge Advocate with me. went in company with them The weather bad we were sadly washed when we come near the shore, it being very hard to land there The shore is so, all the country between that and the Hague, all sand The Hague is a most neat place in all respects The houses so neat in all places and things as is possible Here we walked up and down a great while, the town being now very full of Englishmen, for that the Londoners were come on shore to-day But going to see the Prince,⁹² he was gone forth with his governor, and so we walked up and down the town and court to see the place, and by the help of a stranger, an Englishman, we saw a great many places, and were made to understand many things, as the intention of may-poles, which we saw there standing at every great man’s door, of different greatness according to the quality of the person About ten at night the Prince comes home, and we found an easy admission His attendance very inconsiderable as for a prince, but yet handsome, and his tutor a fine man, and himself a very pretty boy.

15th Coming on board we found all the Commissioners of the House of Lords at dinner with my Lord, who after dinner went away for shore Mr Morland, now Sir Samuel, was here on board, but I do not find that my Lord or any body did give him any respect, he being looked upon by him and all men as a knave.

Among others he betrayed Sir Rich Willis that married Dr F Jones’s daughter who had paid him £1000 at one time by the Protector’s and Secretary Thurloe’s order, for intelligence that he sent concerning the King In the afternoon my Lord called me on purpose to show me his fine cloathes which are now come hither, and indeed are very rich as gold and silver can make them, only his sword he and I do not like In the afternoon my Lord and I walked together in the coach two hours, talking together upon all sorts of discourse as religion, wherein he is, I perceive, wholly sceptical, saying, that indeed the Protestants as to the Church of Rome are wholly fanatiques he likes uniformity and form of prayer about State-business, among other things he told me that his conversion to the King’s cause (for I was saying that I wondered from what time the King could look upon him to become his friend,) commenced from his being in the Sound, when he found what usage he was likely to have from a Commonwealth My Lord, the Captain,