115 



Continuing, he adds — " The Queen kept her word and arrived at 

 Sir John's house in her way to Oxford, A.D., 1591, and dined 

 right royally under the fountain which played in the Court." To 

 this, after allowing the mind to read and perceive a fact, there 

 is added the foot note — " Such is tradition." Now this being so, 

 why was not the word tradition inserted in the text and the 

 impression of fact avoided ? The next paragraph says — " The 

 Queen took the opportunity to visit Bath," this being conveyed 

 as a fact, and " tradition says that she slept at Barton House in 

 St. John Street, the residence of Mr. Mayor Sherston, the first 

 Mayor of Bath." Here again, as tradition only is quoted for the 

 visit to Kelston,. tradition is the only authority for the visit to 

 Bath, as it is also for the sleeping at Mr. Mayor's. The only 

 reference given 'is CoUinson, with his two, Dugdale and Wright, 

 both already noted as useless. Collinson in his account of Bath 

 makes no mention of any such visit. Where the Queen reaUy 

 was in 1590, 1591 and 1592, may now be settled and the evidence 

 concluded. 



In 1590, writing on the 1st August, Thomas Phelippes says — 

 " The Queen is strong and well, she is gone a Progress into 

 Surrey, which will end in three weeks at Windsor."* Again, in 

 July, 1591, Thos. Phelippes writes — " The Queen is going to Ports- 

 mouth with the Earl."t This was the Earl of Essex, then on his 

 way to France. On the 31st August, Phelippes again writes, " The 

 Queen is at Portsmouth, having been at Chichester, whither she 

 came from Lord Montague's at Cowdray, where she and the whole 

 Court were magnificently entertained." If any further fact were 

 necessary there exists in a rare little pamphlet, an account of " The 

 Honorable Entertainment gieven to the Queene's Maiestie in 

 Progresse, at Eluetham in Hampshire, by the Right Honorable 

 the Earle of Hertford, 1591." In December, 1591, the Court being 



• State Papers, 1590. Vol. 31, 154. 

 t SUU Papart, 1601. Vol. 239, 93. 



