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sudden remove." This sudden haste had already much per- 

 plexed the officials, and a Yeoman of the " Garderobbe of Beddes" 

 had been sent with a man and two horses to London, to the 

 Master of the Great Wardrobe there, for certain " Stools, 

 Quisshinges, and other stuflF," to serve her Highness this Progress. 

 He was also sent to Greenwich to the standing wardrobe there, 

 for a chair of cloth of gold to serve her Highness for a dining 

 chair, and this he took by water to the Court at Reading.* 

 Passing on from Woodstock, Sir Edward Umpton was visited at 

 Langley, then Mr. Dutton at Sherborne, and so Sewedly was 

 reached. Here the " old " Lady Chandowes gave the Queen a 

 Jewell : "a fawconne or parrot, the body christall, the head, tayle, 

 leggs and brest of golde ; fully garnished with sparcks of rubyes 

 and emerauldes, hanging by a very short and smale chayne of 

 golde. "t After Sudely, Mr. Denne was visited at Boddington, 

 and on the 8th August Gloucester was reached. Next Mr. 

 Huntley was honoured, at Froster, then Berkley Heme on the 

 11th, and then Sir Nicholas Ponitz at Acton. During the 

 stay at Berkeley, twenty-seven stags were slain " in the toyles " 

 in one day, a destruction which led to some unpleasantness 

 between the Queen and Lord Berkeley. The opportunity of the 

 royal presence was used by Lady Berkeley to prefer a petition for 

 a pardon, to which the Queen answered, No, No, my Lady Berkeley, 

 we know you will never love us for the death of your brother, 

 i.e., the Duke of Norfolk, who was beheaded for treason in 1572. 

 Yet, notwithstanding this coolness, her Majesty stood Godmother, 

 in 1575, to Lord Berkeley's son and heir.J Preparations, occu- 

 pying ten days, were now made for the arrival in Bristol. 

 Always particular about the royal dignity her Majesty had also, 

 strongly marked, the feminine weakness for dress; thus a 

 Yeoman of the Eobes with his man and two horses had been 



• Chamber Treasurer's Accts., 16 Eliz., 1574. 



t Sloane MSS., No. 814. 



J Nichol'g Progresses. Vol i. p. 392, quoting the Berkley MSS. 



