“About noon (though
the brigantine that Beale made was there ready to carry
him) yet he would go in my Lord’s barge with the two
Dukes. Our Captain steered, and my Lord went along bare
with him. I went, and Mr. Mansell, and one of the King’s
footmen, with a dog that the King loved, and 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 with
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 imagining”
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Charles II landing at Dover.
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