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After the “usual preparations,” and “some internal means,” she 
recovered the use of her hand, leg, and tongue, and not only so, 
but ‘in a few weeks after she returned to her husband, conceived 
with child, and had at about a year and a half distance between 
them, five children.” 
So much was this power of the waters assumed that when a 
ehildless woman arrived, the general remark was, “she comes for 
the common cause.” 
What preparation the doctor may have followed besides a course 
of the waters, cannot probably now be known. Abstinence was 
evidently one rule, possibly diet also, as Virgil’s advice in the 
Georgics would be remembered. 
The King stayed a few days at Bath, and then went northward 
alone. Keturning to Bath on the 6th September, he again 
remained a few days and finally returned to Windsor alone. 
The Queen remained all this time at Bath, and stayed on until 
the 6th October, when she also returned to Windsor. 
Soon after her return it began to be reported that she was with 
child, and further, that she had immediately conceived on being 
with the King on the very day of her arrival from Bath. The 
future event was therefore calculated as from this 6th October. It 
was also circulated that at the very moment of this conception 
the Queen’s mother was making a vow to the Lady of Loretto, 
praying that her daughter might conceive and have a son; the 
offering made being a flaming heart and two golden angels 
worth £60,000. 
Too evidently intending to keep up this belief, the King urged 
the Princess Anne, of Denmark, who had miscarried, to go to 
Bath for her general health: to this she assented, and went there 
towards the end of May, 1688. Preparations were making for 
the Queen’s delivery, all to be ready by the end of June, but no 
sooner was Anne gone than suddenly the Queen changed her 
_ reckoning and declared the start must be made from the time the 
King returned to her at Bath, viz., 6th September. Accordingly 
