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is in the time of Bishop Reginald,* the great friend of Bath, who 
was buried before the High Altar in the Abbey ; and of whom 
Richard of Devizes writes, 
Dum Reginaldus erat bene seque suosque regebat, 
Nemo plus queerat, quicquid docuit faciebat. 
Reginald rightly named, himself and his flock ruled well 
How? What he taught he did ; there is no more to tell. 
His love for the City was shown by the foundation of 8. John’s 
Hospital by which the sick and poor of the city had the benefits 
of the hotwaters. In aid of this charity he made two grants between 
A.D. 1180 and 1190 oft 
1. One sheaf ayear from every acre of domain in the Bishoprick. 
2. Of 4 mks per ann “de denariis de caritate in Archid 
Bath et Wellen percipiendis” of two loads of dead wood each week 
from the Bishop’s Park,{ of run of two horses and two cows with 
the Bishop’s cattle and for 100 sheep on Lantesdune. This grant 
was confirmed by Bishop Walter Haselshaw soon after his elevation 
to the See (A.D, 1302) and commuted for a yearly payment of 
100s. on condition that the Master of the Hospital continued to 
make the same return in masses and prayers. 
The years of Reginald’s episcopate were years of progress and 
church building in the Diocese. Prior Hugh of Avalon was laying 
the foundations of his Charter house at Witham in which Reginald 
took great interest. Is it possible the Cell was founded by him on 
Lansdown, as a resting place for weary pilgrims, and a beacon for 
wanderers on the Down, a kindly office perpetuated perhaps at 
the Inn well known as the Star and now as the Blathwayt Arms ? 
A chapel must have already existed, or been erected about this 
time, because a grant§ was made by Robert, Prior, &c,, to Nicholas 
de Lamesdun, of a messuage which he had of Peter de Bath, for term 
of his life, upon condition that, if, by the advice of the Venerable 
* Well’s History, Church, p. 75. + John of Drokenford, p. 99. 
t+ One of the fields is still called The Park. 
§ Bath Cartulary, 95, p. 20. 
