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chap, mission would take up the case: but these threats gradually-75ST died away.*

The royal The summer was now far advanced; and the King set outprogress, on a progress, the longest and the most splendid that hadbeen known for many years. From Windsor he went on thesixteenth of August to Portsmouth, walked round the fortifi-cations, touched some scrofulous people, and then proceededin one of his yachts to Southampton. From Southampton hetravelled to Bath, where he remained a few days, and wherehe left the Queen. When he departed, he was attended bythe High Sheriff of Somersetshire and by a large body of gen-tlemen to the frontier of the county, where the High Sheriffof Gloucestershire, with a not less splendid retinue, was inattendance. The Duke of Beaufort soon met the royalcoaches, and conducted them to Badminton, where a banquetworthy of the fame which his splendid housekeeping had wonfor him was prepared. In the afternoon the cavalcade pro-ceeded to Gloucester. It was greeted two miles from thecity by the Bishop and clergy. At the South Gate the Mayorwaited with the keys. The bells rang and the conduits flowedwith wine as the King passed through the streets to the closewhich encircles the venerable Cathedral. He lay that nightat the deanery, and on the following morning set out forWorcester. From Worcester he went to Ludlow, Shrews-bury, and Chester, and was everywhere received with out-ward signs of joy and respect, which he was weak enough toconsider as proofs that the discontent excited by his measureshad subsided, and that an easy victory was before him.Barillon, more sagacious, informed Lewis that the King ofEngland was under a delusion, that the progress had doneno real good, and that those very gentlemen of Worcester-shire and Shropshire who had thought it their duty to receivetheir Sovereign and their guest with every mark of honourwould be found as refractory as ever when the question of thetest should come on.**

* A Relation of the Proceedings at the Charterhouse, 1689.

** See the London Gazette, from August 18. to September 1. 1687;Barillon, September $}.