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selling and mortgaging (with the necessary formalities) not only 
existed, but had been repeatedly exercised. It appeared, how- 
ever, that James Bassett, the brother of Sir William, had a son, 
Richard, a farmer at Winsley, that Richard’s son, Joseph, was a 
smith at Widcombe, and that his son, Samuel, in 1825, kept the 
‘Old Fox at Holloway. 
I have already trespassed too long upon your attention, and 
have left myself time for only a sentence by way of conclusion. 
We may compare great things and smaller, national with 
municipal life. If Pitt so roused the dormant spirit of the nation 
as to make Englishmen glory in their country’s freedom and 
power; if he taught them how to use their resources and make 
themselves invincible, so Allen gave a lesson to the Burgesses of 
the City of his adoption, which I trust may never be forgotten. 
He showed them that natural amenities must be supplemented 
by those of art; that, whilst architects might build a fine city and 
sanitarians might make a healthy city, true prosperity could only 
be obtained by attracting to it men of culture and learning, by 
cultivating the fine arts and building up upon the admirable basis 
which existed, a superstructure of social refinement. 
Thoughts on Bath as a Roman City. By EMANUEL GREEN, F.S.A. 
(Read 14th January, 1891.) 
After endeavouring to gather and after reading what has been 
said or written about Bath as a Roman City, the impression left 
on the mind will be, that excepting the accounts of actual finds, 
nearly all is entirely speculative or conjectural. Further specu- 
lation however cannot be out of place as only by such efforts, 
-accompanied by good reasoning, can we make any advance in our 
knowledge. 
Proceeding then to think a few thoughts the first question 
