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Paid to Nicholas Baker for a new door for the chappel on the 
*Bridge and for lock and key for it—6s. 
Roll 71, 1628. Paid Thos. Ward for rearing of artche at the Bridge 
gate and for 6 sacks of lime—£1. 4,— 
In the Corporation Minutes for March, 1677 (p. 727) it was :— 
“Acreed by general consent that Henry Pitcher shall take his 
freedome for setting up the Beare and Lion upon the Bridge ;” 
and Roll 112 for the same year notes as,—Paid for setting up 
the Lion and Barr by order,—10s. 
In the Corporation Minutes for 1717 the question was put 
“Whether John Pitcher free mason, on consideration of his 
putting up at his own charges ye images of a Lyon and Bear at 
ye foot of our Bridge shail as a reward for the same be made a 
freeman of this City.” The answer was, ‘“‘ Agreed.” 
The Vineyards of Somerset and Gloucestershire. By the Rev. 
CANON ELLACoMBE, F.L.S. 
(Read 15th January, 1890.) 
In the following short paper I do not propose to go into the 
whole subject of English Vines and Vineyards—I have done that 
elsewhere*—but to narrow the subject within the purview of the 
Bath Field Club. But really that does not very much narrow the 
subject—for the culture of the Vine was almost entirely confined 
to the Southern Counties of England (not quite, for there was a 
great Vineyard at Ely, and even as far North as Durham)—and 
while there are less than forty entries of Vineyards in the 
“Domesday Survey,” six of them are in these two Counties. 
* In “Plant Lore and Garden Craft of Shakespeare,” 2nd edition, 
1884. 
