History of the Company. 57 



In the Company's Audit for the year 1584-1585, 

 we find an allusion to one of those royal progresses 

 which Oueen Elizabeth was so fond of making: 

 from time to time through various parts of the 

 country. The incident of the Queen's return on 

 the occasion is described by Stow, who, in his 

 annals, informs us that on — 



" The 1 2th November the Oueene's maiesty (returning 

 after her progresse) came to her Manor of St. James, 

 where the citizens of London, to the number of 200 

 — the gravest sorts in coats of velvet and chaines of 

 gold, on horsebacke — and 1,000 of the companies 

 on foote (having with them 1,000 men with torches, 

 ready there to give light on every side, for that the 

 night drew on) received and welcomed her." 



The Company's record of the event is as 



follows : — 



We Cookes of London, which work eariy and late, 

 If anything be left God send us part. s. d. 



Per Rich. Tomson, Lond., (No.) 268,094 ... i 2 

 For the Haberdashers. 

 Our sum put in 

 Is in hope to win. ... 3 4 



I am a pore maiden and faine would marry, 

 And the lacke of goods is the cause that I tarry. 

 Per Sibbel Cleyon, (No.) 51,832 2 i 



We putt in one lotte, poer maydens we be ten, 

 We pray God send us a good lotte that we all may 

 say amen. 

 Per Dorothie Hawes, of Cheapside, 



(No.) 44,963 ••• I 2." 



Lotteries were suppressed by an Act 10 William III., c. 

 23, which declared them nuisances, but they were revived in 

 subsequent reigns. 



