Note 712 — PART IV. From the Reformation to the present time. (continued 2)

This is said to have been remarkably the case in a certain excursion which her majesty made to Coventry. The mayor, recorder, and corporation met her on the road at some distance from the city, with what they deemed an appropriate or suitable address. Versifying being then much in vogue, and the queen herself rather fond of such compositions, they had their address drawn up in that way, which the recorder read before it was presented to her majesty. It was but short, and said to run thus,