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which everything had fallen, and showing clearly how reasonable 

 the enquiry was. It was found that Henry de Courteney had 

 built a noble chamber on the city wall, for which he had taken 

 the stone from the wall. That the miller of the Prior took stone 

 from the wall for repairing the pool of his mill. That the Prior 

 took stone for buUding an almshouse. That he, as also had other 

 Priors before him, made lime from the walls at the Southgate ; 

 and other Priors had made lime at the Westgate for eight perches 

 towards Monksmill; and that the defunct Prior had carried 

 stones to the Priory, to the damage of the whole city. That the 

 Master of the Hospital of St. John took stone for his house ; 

 that Thomas Wlbeyn, William le Commandur, Koger Budde, 

 William Faber, John Koker and William Cocer carried away 

 stone from the walls to construct or repair their houses. That 

 Peter Forester took stone for the pool of his mill, and Thomas 

 Sweyn took stone to build the house in which Thomas Sweyn his 

 son lived, and that GunUla le Marescal held a house built of the 

 stone from the wall : all being declared to the damage of the 

 city and of the King. It was also found that the King's own 

 houses within the gates of the Abbey were deteriorated and 

 destroyed, and to repair them to their pristine state would cost 

 ten marcs beyond the cost already expended on two houses 

 within the metes of the Priory. It was also found that Kobert 

 Cherin had a tenement within the city and a meadow without, 

 for which he kept the gate on the bridge in time of war.* 

 This is an early mention of such a bridge. No order for repairs 

 seems to have followed these enquiries, and so the picture here 

 drawn must have been seen by the King himself when he came 

 to Bath three years later, on the 15th September, 1276. He 

 stayed the 16th, and then went on to Keynsham the 17th, and 

 then to Bristol. He was in Somerset again in 1278, but did not 

 visit Bath. In 1285, coming now from Bristol, Edward was in 



*Hnndred Rolls. 



