mariners.]

[Footnote 23: 'Booth's:' Sir George Booth, an unsuccessful and premature
warrior on the Royal side in 1659.]

[Footnote 24: 'Fougue:' a French word used for the fire and spirit of a
horse.]

[Footnote 25: 'Schevelin:' a village about a mile from the Hague, at
which Charles II. embarked for England.]

[Footnote 26: 'Naseby:' the ship in which Charles II. returned from
exile.]

[Footnote 27: 'Great Gloster:' Henry, Duke of Gloucester, third son of
Charles I., landed at Dover with his brother in 1660, and died of the
smallpox soon afterwards.]

[Footnote 28: Charles entered London on the 29th of May.]

[Footnote 29: 'Star:' said to have shone on the day of Charles' birth,
and outshone the sun.]

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TO HIS SACRED MAJESTY.