and then commanded him to follow him to Flanders. His Majesty went the
next day, my husband that day month, which was the beginning of
December. I went with our family to Calais, and my husband sent me
privately to London for money in January. I returned him one hundred
and fifty pounds, with which he went to the King, and I followed to
Newport, Bruges, and Ghent, and to Brussels, where the King received
us very graciously, with the Princess Royal and the Dukes of York and
Gloucester. After staying three weeks at Brussels, we went to Breda,
where we heard the happy news of the King's return to England. In the
beginning of May we went with all the Court to the Hague, where I
first saw the Queen of Bohemia, who was exceeding kind to all of us.
Here the King and all the Royal Family were entertained at a very
great supper by the States; and now business of state took up much
time.

The King promised my husband he should be one of the Secretaries of
State, and both the now Duke of Ormond, and the Lord Chancellor
Clarendon, were witnesses of it, yet that false man made the King
break his word for his own accommodation, and placed Mr. Norris, a
poor country gentleman of about two hundred pounds a year, a fierce
Presbyterian, and one that never saw the King's face: but still
promises were made of the reversion to your father.

Upon the King's restoration, the Duke of York, then made Admiral,
appointed ships to carry over the company and servants of the King,
who were very great. His Highness appointed for my husband and his
family a third-rate frigate, called the Speedwell; but his Majesty
commanded my husband to wait on him in his own ship. We had by the
States' order sent on board to the King's most eminent servants, great
store of provisions: for our family we had sent on board the Speedwell