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a poem, entitled " The Dolfull A Due," in which the Bristolians 



stated that, — 



Their joy was joyned with grevous groens, their triumphe tomed to 



tears, 

 The brantch whose blosoms gladnes broght, a bitter berry bears. 

 In house and street whear mirth was herd, is moen and mourning 



noies ; 

 The summer day is dim'd with clouds, eclypsed are our joyes. 

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As loeth to taek our heavy leave, as leave our lives indeed. 

 A due dear Lady of this Land. The living Lord thee speed. 



A gentleman usher in advance now made ready for her Majesty 

 at St. Lawrence, and arranged also for her dining at Keynsham, 

 being so occupied four days, for which he was paid 78s. 8d. 

 Following this is a charge of 13s. 4d. for two days' labour, 

 paid for making ready at Morecroft (? Stoke's Croft) for her 

 Majesty to " shifte her." This entry seems out of place, and 

 coming in with that of St. Lawrence, alludes perhaps to some 

 accommodation for robing before her entry into Bristol, as the 

 stoppage at St. Lawrence on leaving, might have been for the 

 opposite purpose of resuming her travelling costume. 



On the Queen's known approach to Bath, preparations had to 

 be made there, but unfortunately there seems to have been no 

 Thomas Churchyard to chronicle the events, no Member of a 

 Field Club to help make a little history for posterity. Some 

 information however is gained from a roll in the Churchwarden's 

 accounts of St. Michael, called the " Accompte of the Chamber- 

 laine of the Cittie of Bath, made and delivered before the Mayor 

 and Aldermen and Common Council of the said City, on the 10th 

 January, 17 Eliz." From this it is learned that " against the 

 queen's coming," the walls were kept clean at a cost of 2s., and 

 that John More, a freemason, was paid 5s. 5d. for a ring at the 

 West Gate. There was, no doubt, as in other places, a considerable 

 brush up. In some towns every householder was ordered to clean 



