so got on shore when the King did, who was received by General Monk with all imaginable love and respect at his entrance upon the land of Dover.  Infinite the crowd of people and the horsemen, citizens, and noblemen of all sorts.  The Mayor of the town came and gave him his white staff, the badge of his place, which the King did give him again.  The Mayor also presented him from the town a very rich Bible, which he took and said it was the thing that he loved above all things in the world.  A canopy was provided for him to stand under, which he did, and talked awhile with General Monk and others, and so into a stately coach there set for him, and so away through the town towards Canterbury, without making any stay at Dover.  The shouting and joy expressed by all is past imagination.  Seeing that my Lord did not stir out of his barge, I got into a boat, and so into his barge, whither Mr. John Crew stepped, and spoke a word or two to my Lord, and so returned, we back to the ship, and going did see a man almost drowned that fell out of his boat into the sea, but with much ado was got out.  My Lord almost transported with joy that he had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction in the world, that could give an offence to any, and with the great honour he thought it would be to him.  Being overtook by the brigantine, my Lord and we went out of our barge into it, and so went on board with Sir W. Batten,

[Clarendon describes William Batten as an obscure fellow, and, although unknown to the service, a good seaman, who was in 1642 made Surveyor to the Navy; in which employ he evinced great animosity against the King.  The following year, while Vice-Admiral to the Earl of Warwick, he chased a Dutch man-of-war into Burlington Bay, knowing that Queen Henrietta Maria was on board; and then, learning that she had landed and was lodged on the quay, he fired above a hundred shot upon the house, some of which passing through her majesty’s chamber, she was obliged, though indisposed, to retire for safety into the open fields.  This act, brutal as it was, found favour with the Parliament.  But Batten became afterwards discontented; and, when a portion of the fleet revolted, he carried the “Constant Warwick,” one of the best ships in the Parliament navy, over into Holland, with several seamen of note.  For this act of treachery he was knighted and made a Rear-Admiral by Prince Charles.  We hear no more of Batten till the Restoration, when he became a Commissioner of the Navy, and was soon after M.P. for Rochester.  See an account of his second wife, in note to November 24th, 1660, and of his illness and death, October 5th, 1667.  He had a son, Benjamin, and a daughter, Martha, by his first wife.—­B.]

and the Vice and Rear-Admirals.  At night my Lord supped and Mr. Thomas Crew with Captain Stoakes, I supped with the Captain, who told me what the King had given us.  My Lord returned late, and at his coming did give me order to cause the marke to be gilded, and a Crown and C. R. to be made at the head of the coach table, where the King to-day with his own hand did mark his height, which accordingly I caused the painter to do, and is now done as is to be seen.