are in the water, then the doore is shut which shutts down into the water a good way, so you are in a private place where you still ascend severall more steps and let your Canvass drop of by degrees into the water, which your women guides take off, and the meane tyme your maides flings a garment of flannell made like a Nightgown w^{th} great sleeves over your head, and y^e guides take y^e taile and so pulls it on you Just as you rise y^e steps, and y^e other garment drops off so you are wrapped up in y^e flannell and your nightgown on y^e top, and your slippers and so you are set in Chaire which is brought into y^e roome w^{ch} are called slips, and there are Chimney’s in them, you may have fires. These are in severall parts of the sides of y^e bath for y^e Conveniency of persons going in and out of y^e bath decently, and at y^e top of y^e staires stands a woman y^t Layes a woollen Cloth for you to set your bare foot, and also to give you attendance. Y^e Chaires you go in are a low seate and w^{th} frames round and over y^r head and all cover’d inside and out w^{th} red bayes and a Curtaine drawn before of y^e same w^{ch} makes it Close and warme; then a Couple of men w^{th} staves takes and Carryes you to your lodging and sets you at y^r bedside where you go to bed and lye and sweate some tyme as you please. Y^r own maides and y^e maides of the house gets your fire and waites on you till you rise to get out of your sweate. All the baths has the same attendance, the queens bath is bigger then y^e other three but not and neare so big as y^e Kings, which do run into each other and is only parted by a wall and at one place a great arch where they run into each other. Y^e queens bath is a degree hotter than y^e Cross bath and y^e Kings bath much hotter, these have all gallery’s round and the pump is in one of these galleryes at y^e Kings bath which y^e Company drinks of, its very hot and tastes like y^e water y^t boyles Eggs, has such a smell, but y^e nearer y^e pumpe you drinke it, y^e hotter and less offencive and more spiriteous. The baths are all Emptyed as soone as the Company goes out, which is about 10 or 11 of y^e Clock in the morning; then by sluces they empty at once y^e bath so it fills againe. I have seen all y^e springs bubble up as thicke out of y^e ground when the baths have been empty. Y^e bottom is gravell. So they will be full for y^e evening if Company would go in againe, if so they empty them againe at Night and they are filled against y^e morning and there will be such a white scum on the bath w^{ch} y^e guides goes and scimms off Cleane before any Company goes in; if they go in while this scum is on it gives them the bath mantle as they call it, makes them breake out into heate and pimples; y^e like will be on them if they go into y^e bath before they have purged, especially in y^e hotter bath. Y^e places for divertion about y^e bath is either y^e walkes in that they call y^e