ind of what I heard him say, that children do, in every
day's experience, look several ways with both their eyes, till custom
teaches them otherwise. And that we do now see but with one eye, our
eyes looking in parallel lines. After this discourse I was called to
write a pass for my Lord Mandeville to take up horses to London, which I
wrote in the King's name, and carried it to him to sign, which was the
first and only one that ever he signed in the ship Charles. To bed,
coming in sight of land a little before night.

25th. By the morning we were come close to the land, and everybody made
ready to get on shore. The King and the two dukes did eat their
breakfast before they went, and there being set some ship's diet they
ate of nothing else but pease and pork, and boiled beef. Dr. Clerke, who
ate with me, told me how the King had given fifty pounds to Mr. Shepley
for my Lord's servants, and five hundred pounds among the officers and
common men of the ship. I spoke to the Duke of York about business, who
called me Pepys by name, and upon my desire did promise me his future
favor. Great expectation of the King's making some knights, but there
was none. 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, and a dog that the
King loved, in a boat by ourselves, 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 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 toward 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. My Lord almost transported with joy
that he had done all this without any the least blur or obstruction