Pepys’ Diary.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19268, 3 January 1931, Page 8

Pepys ’ Diary.

(1660.) May 16th. This afternoon Mr Edwd. Pickering told me in what a sad, poor condition for clothes and money the king was, and all his attendants, when he came to him first from my Lord, their clothes not being worth forty shillings the best of them. 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. May 17th. Before dinner Mr Edw. Pickering and I, W. Howe, Pirn, and my boy, to Scheveling, where we took coach, and so to the Hague, where walking, intend-

i® es ® sin in is m sj ® m m ® ® @ hi ® ® ® ® ® ® ing to find one that might show us the King incognito, I met with Captain Whittington and he did promise me to do it. 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, w’ho 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, from the King to the Lord Chancellor, who did lie bed rid of the gout. He spoke very merrily to the child and me. After that we went to eee the Queen, who used us very respectfully? her hand we all kissed. She seems a very debonaire, but plain lady.