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ride across the turf of the plain to Salisbury, a dining house 
having been prepared at Everley. For waiting and attending 
and making ready the lodgings at Salisbury, with the church, and 
the bishop’s palace for dinner and supper, twenty days in July 
cost £17 13s. 4d. Probably there was some intention of meeting 
the King here, as he came to Salisbury from his favourite haunt, 
the New Forest, for the feast of the 5th August, and dined at 
Wilton. The Queen however left before his arrival proceeding 
by Chiture (Chittern) where she dined, and so to Bath. She 
was preceded as usual by ushers, grooms of the chamber, yeomen, 
and groom porters, who charged, for making ready at Dr. 
_Stewarde’s house at the Bathe by the space of twenty days; the 
church there by the space of eight days; her Majesty’s bathinge 
lodgings at Mr. Hadnethe’s house ; the Queen’s slip in the bath, 
and divers alterations about her Majesty’s lodgings by the space 
of ten days, in all thirty-eight days in July and August, 
£33 11s. 4d.* There were further paid £105 10s. 9d., besides 
another sum of £400, money disbursed in fitting and providing 
of lodgings at Bath these two journeys in 1615.¢ Under date of 
this year, 1615, Warner, p. 320, tells us that a light appeared in 
the King’s bath when the Queen was bathing causing a fright, 
and a consequent making of a new bath known as the Queen’s 
bath. He gives no authority for the story, and as nothing has 
hitherto been known of this visit, and consequently Warner 
knew nothing of it, his date may be supposed a misprint for 1613, 
a visit in that year being known through the Bristol histories, as 
already noted. No one probably will accept this story of the 
light, one light once appearing specially to a queen ; so also the 
story of the consequent new bath with a new name in 1615 must 
be examined, inasmuch as the name already existed in 1613 when 
there is a distinct charge for preparing the King and Queen’s 
* Treasurer of the Chamber ; Bundle 390, Roll 52. 
+ Pell Records, 23 Dec. 
