64 General History of Bath. 



" 5th Feb., 1643-4. — It is agreed that the Chamber will provide 



Tenn Barrells of Powder at their owne Costs and Chardges for 



his Ma"" Service. 

 And further that if the severall Hundres of this Division doe desire 



to lay in their pportion of Powder into o' Magasein that the 



Corporacon will provide a place for it but not to insure it if it 



should be taken from them or come to any other mischance. 

 I2th Feb.— ^Agreed that 50" shalbe taken vpp for the buyeinge of 



Ten Barrells of Powder by the Cittie for the use of his Ma"" 



Service. 

 l8th March. — Rators to rate the Inhabitants of the Cittie for the 



Raiseinge of 1 50" for arreres to the Kinge as alsoe for value of 



the Houses of the said Cittie. 

 1 3th May. — Agreed that a Rate shalbe made throughout the Cittie 



for the gatheringe of 40'" for prence Maurice. 



Agreed that a house shalbe taken for the Gouerner for his 



quarters." 



These minutes are struck through in ink, no doubt as a 

 simple mode of rescission vsrhen the Royalists were no longer 

 masters of the city. 



In May, 1644, Queen Henrietta Maria, then near her 

 confinement, spent a night at Bath, on her way to Exeter, 

 and in the same month Prince Charles made Bath his resi- 

 dence for a time when driven by the plague from Bristol. 



In July King Charles himself visited the city, on his way 

 to join the army in Cornwall. 



In June, 1 645, the Royalist cause was lost at Naseby, and 

 in the next month Prince Rupert thus wrote in cipher, from 

 his command at Bristol, to secretary Nicholas : — 



" If Fairfax speedily advance to us we shall be forced to quit Bath for 

 want of men and victuals, but if he give us time we shall do well." 



The story of the capture of the city as told 



^thecity?* by ^P"Sg^ ^" hi^ "Anglia Rediviva " is 

 amusing : — ■ 



