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her £30,000.* Notwithstanding this, and that the journey was 
made in great state, notices or entries relating to it are curiously 
absent, the only record apparently being a warrant by Privy 
Seal to the Gentleman Usher of “‘ our dearest wife” for payment 
of £220 for divers necessary charges expended for her use at 
Bath.t Bath histories too are entirely silent. Leaving Bath on 
Friday, 4th June, the Queen duly arrived in Bristol, the prepara- 
tions there costing £15 18s.t An account of this visit comes 
to us in a pamphlet entitled :-— 
A Relation of the Royall, Magnificent and Sumptuous Entertain- 
ment, given to the High and Mighty Princesse, Queen Anne, at the 
renowned Citie of Bristoll by the Mayor, Sheriffes, and Aldermen 
thereof, in the month of June last past, 1613. Together with the 
Orations, Gifts, Triumphes, Water Combats, and other Showes there 
made. 
Herein we are told :— 
The grave and ancient Counsell first, in gownes of scarlet dye, 
Attended on, each by a page, did ride triumphantly, 
The bels most joyfully did ring with musicks symphony, 
And still these words, God save our Queene, re-echoed in the skie. 
In the water combat, supposed to represent a naval fight between 
Christians and Turks, six bladders of blood were poured out of 
the “scubber” holes to make the thing look real. From Bristol 
the route homeward was to Mr. Henry Billingsley’s, Siston House 
in Gloucestershire, then round by Bishop’s Cannings, Tottenham, 
Newbury and Reading, to Windsor, and then to Greenwich.§ 
At Bishop’s Cannings, on the 11th June, the Vicar, George 
Ferrebe, having composed a song for four voices and trained some 
youths to sing their parts, dressing himself as a bard and clothing 
Pe eee ee 
* §, P. Dom., vol. 72, 120 
+ Sign Manual, vol. 3, No. 12. S. P. Dom., vol, 74, p. 189. 
t Pipe Office, Treasurer of Chamber, Seriesi., Box G, Ticket 4, fol. 9. 
§ S. P. Dom., vol. 74, 10 
