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commemoration indeed, for it may fairly be said that this embryo 
of the Bath Waters cost James II. his crown. 
Yet with all the apparent subserviency running through the 
addresses, Bath was as thankful as any place when the King was 
gone, and the next year had her rejoicings with the rest when 
the new King was crowned. One broadside poem of the time 
is entitled :— 
The Loyalty and Glory of the City of Bath: being a True and Perfect 
Relation of the Wonderful Ceremony and Transactions that were lately 
performed there. 
Another is :— 
News from Bath: being a True and Perfect Relation of the great and 
splendid Procession, and joyful Transactions there on the 11th day of 
April, being the Coronation day of their most sacred Majesties, William 
and Mary, King and Queen of Engiand, Scotland, France and Ireland. 
In this it is told that a great number of the best quality 
joined in the festivities in testimony of their joy for the happy 
deliverance from Popery and slavery. In the procession of the 
day, first came a hundred young men in holland shirts, richly 
adorned, and carrying naked swords in their hands as a protection 
to the succeeding train of two hundred virgins “ girt with 
bayonets,” and clad in rich attire, with crowns on their heads and 
sceptres in their hands. They carried also two flags, on one, 
“God save King William and Queen Mary; let their enemies 
perish ;” and on the other, “ This is a J oyful Day.” Next, carrying 
a truncheon gilt, came an “amazon dame,” clad in a velvet 
escalloped vesture covered with gold lace, a golden sash on her 
waist, and on her head a light peruke, crowned with a plume of 
crimson feathers. Following her were twenty-four others of her 
sex dressed in like manner, but carrying darts and javelins in 
their hands; their “right paps concealed,” so as to appear cut 
off. Next came thirty young gentlewomen having a scarf laced 
with point on their right shoulders and a laurel crown on their 
heads ; each carried a bow and arrow, and on their breast the 
