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interest, so here again, just where so much wanted, there is no 
record of the route taken to Bath ; no mention as is usually 
the case of a dining house prepared, no hint or word of any 
kind to guide or suggest in any way. The ushers preceded 
as usual and made ready Dr. Stewarde’s house and Mr. Hadnette’s 
house at the Bath, being occupied twenty days in August and 
September for which they charged £17 13s. 4d. For making 
ready the baths ten several times, ten days in August and Sep- 
tember, £8 16s. 8d. For making ready ner Majesty’s bathing 
chamber and the church five several times, with alterations in 
her lodgings, ten days in September, £8 16s. 8d. 
Dr. Thomas Mayerne the King’s physician, in a letter written 
in French, dated “‘ Aux baings” 31 August, in giving the King an 
account of the Queen says she had that day bathed and on 
leaving the bath was in the best of spirits. Work thus well 
commenced, wrote the Dr., is half finished, and that which 
advances it most, that which touches the health, is the firm 
belief the Queen has in the process, Tout va bien jusques 4 
cette heure. The King too seems to have been out of sorts being 
worried with a painful colic, much troubled with “a flux and 
griping of the belly ” so the Doctor enclosed a list of the medicines 
which he thought good. Of these he recommended the most 
bitter, combined with a regulated diet, ‘‘ without which failure 
will result.”* The list of medicines is not now with the letter. 
The Queen’s stay at Bath was short. Leaving in September she 
passed by Laycock, Broadhinton, Littlecot and Newbury, and so 
to Windsor. <A reference to the account for “apothecaries stuff 
and other parcels provided for the Queen’s use” about and at this 
time will show how she was treated. The accounts are returned 
quarterly ; thus taking first, for the sake of comparison, the 
ordinary quarter without special illness, ending 25 Dec., 1612, the 
cost was £60 6s. 6d. In February, 1613, letters record that she 
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* S. P. Dom., vol. 77, No, 55. 
