“At length, by wonderful impulse of fate,
               The people call him back to help the State;
               And what is more, they send him money, too,
               And clothe him all from head to foot anew.”]

And how overjoyed the King was when Sir J. Greenville brought him some money; so joyful, that he called the Princess Royal and Duke of York to look upon it as it lay in the portmanteau before it was taken out.  My Lord told me, too, that the Duke of York is made High Admiral of England.

17th.  Up early to write down my last two days’ observations.  Dr. Clerke came to me to tell me that he heard this morning, by some Dutch that are come on board already to see the ship, that there was a Portuguese taken yesterday at the Hague, that had a design to kill the King.  But this I heard afterwards was only the mistake upon one being observed to walk with his sword naked, he having lost his scabbard.  Before dinner Mr. Edw.  Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pim, and my boy,—­[Edward Montagu, afterwards Lord Hinchinbroke.]—­to Scheveling, where we took coach, and so to the Hague, where walking, intending to find one that might show us the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington (that had formerly brought a letter to my Lord from the Mayor of London) and he did promise me to do it, but first we went and dined at a French house, but paid 16s. for our part of the club.  At dinner in came Dr. Cade, a merry mad parson of the King’s.  And they two after dinner got the child and me (the others not being able to crowd in) to see the King, who kissed the child very affectionately.  Then we kissed his, and the Duke of York’s, and the Princess Royal’s hands.  The King seems to be a very sober man; and a very splendid Court he hath in the number of persons of quality that are about him, English very rich in habit.  From the King to the Lord Chancellor,

     [On January 29th, 1658, Charles ii. entrusted the Great Seal to Sir
     Edward Hyde, with the title of Lord Chancellor, and in that
     character Sir Edward accompanied the King to England.]

who did lie bed-rid of the gout:  he spoke very merrily to the child and me.  After that, going to see the Queen of Bohemia, I met with Dr. Fullers whom I sent to a tavern with Mr. Edw.  Pickering, while I and the rest went to see the Queen,—­[Henrietta Maria.]—­who used us very respectfully; her hand we all kissed.  She seems a very debonaire, but plain lady.  After that to the Dr.’s, where we drank a while or so.  In a coach of a friend’s of Dr. Cade we went to see a house of the Princess Dowager’s in a park about half-a-mile or a mile from the Hague, where there is one, the most beautiful room for pictures in the whole world.  She had here one picture upon the top, with these words, dedicating it to the memory of her husband:—­“Incomparabili marito, inconsolabilis vidua.”