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“The Queen’s Famous Progress, or her Majesty’s Royal journey to the 
Bath, and happy Return. With the most remarkable particulars of her 
royal entertainment at Oxford, and glorious and triumphant reception 
at the Bath. Her touching for the Evil, as also how 200 virgins 
cloathed in white, met the Queen with Bows and Arrows by their 
sides, &c. &c. &e.” 
This was followed by another addressed as from “The two 
hundred maidens at the Bath, to the Virgins in Oxford.” 
Her Majesty’s outlay, ‘‘money disburst” at Bath was £307 
1s. 10d., and there was a charge for a new leathern bag for ye 
green velvet carpet, and a new trunk to carry ye standishes, pens 
and paper, to Bath and other places. 
Anne seems to have been pleased with her trip, or to 
have met with Hope who told her a flattering tale, as the 
visit was repeated. In the State Papers of 1703 there is 
an application from the Keeper and Guide of Roads, for 
allowances to his messengers sent to give notice of the state 
of the roads should her Majesty go to the Bath. These were 
reported so bad that there could be no passage, and it was 
suggested that the Attorney-General should prosecute, that a 
Road Surveyor should be appointed,and the roads indicted. This 
difficulty was got rid of in some way, and the Queen with the 
Prince left Windsor on Wednesday, the 18th August, and going by 
Marlborough stayed at Lacock, Sir John Talbot’s, and arrived at 
Bath on the 20th, about seven o’clock. On Kingsdown she was 
met by twenty chairmen with sedans, appointed to carry her 
down the hill if she wished it. At the North Gate she encountered 
the Mayor, who delivering the keys of the city, duly received them 
again, and then, accompanied by the train bands and music and 
bell ringing, the streets, balconies and windows being adorned by 
a vast number of people, his Worship preceded the Queen and 
conducted her to her lodgings at Dr. Peirce’s. 
Dr. Peirce had written on The Effects of the Bath in Curing 
Palsy and Barrenness : a favourite fallacy of the faculty from an 
early time. 
