Chapter Three

Extract

Newes being brought to Dover of Charles Steward's being put to sea, Monke with his garde etc. marcheth to Dover to meete him; where upon his landing the 26th of May, wayting on him, Charles Steward ownes Monke to be his father, embraceing and kissing him. And truly they were as brethren in iniquity, in treachery and falsehood neare allyed. The King bestowes on him the George at Canterbury, and the Duke of Yorke puts on him the George, the Duke of Glocester the Garter. Thus began the pageantry. And because the army who had fought against him were in their affections still the same, it was thought fit (besides the Declaration that was sent by Sir John Greenvill from Bredagh, wherein he oblieged himselfe to confirme all sales, and to give liberty of conscience, and to leave those thinges and the payment of the souldiers' arreares wholy to the Parlament), further to cajole the army, that Charles Steward's lodging, and his brother's the Duke of Yorke, be taken up at Colonell Gibbons his howse, a collonell of the army living at Rochester. Many knights were made as he came to London; and amongst others Mr. Robert Reynolds, for the good service he did in complying with Monke for the restoring of him; which some who were of the King's retinew observing, imediately told him that he had bestowed honour upon one of the veryest knaves of the Parliament party; which he seemed troubled that he had done, but sayd that Clergyes (whom he had before given a patient to to be a baronet) had presented him to him as one that had done him very good service.