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returning to Salisbury on the llth. The return to Salisbury 
was a disappointment, as this departure seemed to promise the 
discovery of an unknown route through Somerset passing 
probably by or near Cadbury Camp where there is a spring called 
Queen Anne’s well, a name difficult to account for except for 
such a reason. On the 13th the King left for Bewlye, a favourite - 
spot, where he stayed a week and then returned to Windsor,: by 
Broadlands, Titchborne, Farnham, and Bagshot. The Queen 
went her own way in an opposite direction, first to Fountain 
(Fonthill), where she dined, and then to Longleat, having been 
preceded by a Gentleman Usher and his subordinates, who had 
“by the space of ten days” prepared for her at a cost of 
48 16s. 8d.* This was a favourite resting place, and royalty 
seemed always welcome. In March a Gentleman Usher, with his 
grooms, charged for riding from London to Sir Thomas Thynne’s 
house at Longleat to attend and make ready for the christening 
of his son. No royal visit is chronicled for this date, so that this 
was probably done by proxy. The Queen’s daily movements are 
ot recorded in a consecutive form, nor are they regularly dated 
on the parchment rolls, consequently one fixed day or date must 
guide for others. Presumably she left Salisbury the same day as 
the King, the 13th August, and so arrived on that day at 
Longleat. Next day, Saturday the 14th, she went on to Wells. 
The route to be followed on these Progresses was necessarily 
planned and known before starting ; thus her intention of visiting 
Wells was known there on the 19th July when the Mayor and 
Masters in meeting assembled determined on what should be 
done at her reception.+ 
The minutes in the Corporation book read—“ Forasmuche as 
by a Tre sent from the Lord Buishoppe it appeareth that the 
Queene’s Maj’tie doth intend to come to Welles, and therefore it 
’ 
* Pipe Office, No. 544, fol. 9, fol. 10 dors. 
+ Wells Corporation Records, Convocation Books, fol. 37 
