Guard in another ship my Lord did give three dozen of bottles of wine.  He made friends between Mr. Pierce and me.  After dinner the King and Duke altered the name of some of the ships, viz. the Nazeby into Charles; the Richard, James; the Speakers Mary; the Dunbar (which was not in company with us), the Henry; Winsly, Happy Return; Wakefield, Richmond; Lambert; the Henrietta; Cheriton, the Speedwell; Bradford, the Success.  That done, the Queen, Princess Royal, and Prince of Orange, took leave of the King, and the Duke of York went on board the London, and the Duke of Gloucester, the Swiftsure.  Which done, we weighed anchor, and with a fresh gale and most happy weather we set sail for England.  All the afternoon the King walked here and there, up and down (quite contrary to what I thought him to have been), very active and stirring.  Upon the quarterdeck he fell into discourse of his escape from Worcester,

     [For the King’s own account of his escape dictated to Pepys, see
     “Boscobel” (Bohn’s “Standard Library").]

where it made me ready to weep to hear the stories that he told of his difficulties that he had passed through, as his travelling four days and three nights on foot, every step up to his knees in dirt, with nothing but a green coat and a pair of country breeches on, and a pair of country shoes that made him so sore all over his feet, that he could scarce stir.  Yet he was forced to run away from a miller and other company, that took them for rogues.  His sitting at table at one place, where the master of the house, that had not seen him in eight years, did know him, but kept it private; when at the same table there was one that had been of his own regiment at Worcester, could not know him, but made him drink the King’s health, and said that the King was at least four fingers higher than he.  At another place he was by some servants of the house made to drink, that they might know him not to be a Roundhead, which they swore he was.  In another place at his inn, the master of the house,

[This was at Brighton.  The inn was the “George,” and the innkeeper was named Smith.  Charles related this circumstance again to Pepys in October, 1680.  He then said, “And here also I ran into another very great danger, as being confident I was known by the master of the inn; for, as I was standing after supper by the fireside, leaning my hand upon a chair, and all the rest of the company being gone into another room, the master of the inn came in and fell a- talking with me, and just as he was looking about, and saw there was nobody in the room, he upon a sudden kissed my hand that was upon the back of the chair, and said to me, ’God bless you wheresoever you go!  I do not doubt before I die, but to be a lord, and my wife a lady.’  So I laughed, and went away into the next room.”]

as the King was standing with his hands upon the back of a chair by the fire-side, kneeled down and kissed his hand, privately, saying, that he would not ask him who he was, but bid God bless him whither he was going.  Then the difficulty of getting a boat to get into France, where he was fain to plot with the master thereof to keep his design from the four men and a boy (which was all his ship’s company), and so got to Fecamp in France.