Late at night we writ letters to the King of the news of our coming, and Mr. Edward Picketing 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.  After letters were gone then to bed.

14th.  In the morning when I woke and rose, I saw myself out of the scuttle close by the shore, which afterwards I was told to be the Dutch shore; the Hague was clearly to be seen by us.  My Lord went up in his nightgown into the cuddy,

     ["A sort of cabin or cook-room, generally in the fore-part, but
     sometimes near the stern of lighters and barges of burden.”—­Smyth’s
     Sailor’s Word-Book.]

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’s hand, and were sent again by my Lord to do the same to the Prince of Orange.

     [Son of the Prince of Orange and Mary, eldest daughter of Charles I.
     —­afterwards William iii.  He was then in his tenth year, having
     been born in 1650.]

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 came near the shore, it being very hard to land there.  The shore is, as all the country between that and the Hague, all sand.  The rest of the company got a coach by themselves; Mr. Creed and I went in the fore part of a coach wherein were two very pretty ladies, very fashionable and with black patches, who very merrily sang all the way and that very well, and were very free to kiss the two blades that were with them.  I took out my flageolette and piped, but in piping I dropped my rapier-stick, but when I came to the Hague, I sent my boy back again for it and he found it, for which I did give him 6d., but some horses had gone over it and broke the scabbard.  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 today.  But going to see the Prince,—­[Prince of Orange, afterwards William