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days from the 18th August, as did two others from Marlboro w, 

 for eighteen days from the same date.* 



Leaving Bath on Monday, 23rd August, her Majesty rested at 

 Haslebury, and then went on to Lacock, where the preparations, 

 including "two several standings in the Forest," had occupied 

 ten days, at a charge of £9 16s. 8d. On the 28th Mr. Brouncker's 

 house at Stoke was reached, the preparations, including a standing 

 " in Vize Park," having occupied eight days, at a charge of £7 

 17s. 4d. The next place, arriving on the 31st, was Mr. Hawker's 

 house at Hatchbury, prepared in six days at a charge of £5 18s. 

 Here I think is a nut for the Wiltshire man, as Sir Richard Hoare 

 makes no mention of the family of Hawker at Heytesbury.t Now a 

 Gentleman Usher, with two Grooms of the Chamber, two Grooms of 

 the Wardrobe and one Groom Porter, made ready " a dining house 

 at Longlete," Sir John Thynne's house, being so occupied two days, 

 at a cost of 39s. 4d. In acknowledging the honour done him 

 Sir John presented the Queen with a Jewell, — " a faulconne 

 preying upon a fowle, with a great emeralde in her breste, and a 

 perle pendaunte, with dyvers sparcks of dyamonds and rubyes 

 upon the wings and brest."| This occasion is noticed under date 

 2nd September, 1574, in an old account book found at Longleat 

 by Canon Jackson, by the entry of a payment of £50 to John 

 Bridge and Nich Webbe of Kingswood, in part of £140, paid by 

 them to Henry Pope, of London, for "one jewele, called a Phenex 

 sett with one great emerald and 50 other dyamonds and rubies with 

 an appendant Perell, wliich Sir John Thynne gave to her Majestie 

 being at Longleat." From Heytesbury, on the 4th Sept., her Majesty 

 passed on to WUton, where preparations were made on a grand 

 scale, including a banqueting house, a dining house in the park, 

 and two standings, ten days being occupied in preparing them. 

 Also some extra " stuffe " was sent from Westminster, apparently 

 a good load, as it required the Keeper of the Palace at Westminster, 



• State Papers. Domestic. f P Sir Walter Hungerford, the hawker. 

 JSloane MSS., No. 814. 



