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comprised the "56 tenements " granted by Elizabeth to the 

 municipality as trustees for the church. The Town Council 

 appropriated the houses and still retain them. The parishioners 

 took legal proceedings to assert their rights, but their purses were 

 not deep enough, and the Corporation prevented the case from 

 coming to a hearing. 



The Chairman said those who heard Bishop Clifford's paper 

 would remember that he said there were no walls except round the 

 baths, and that there was no trace of its having been a fortified city 

 but it seemed there must have been considerable space enclosed, 

 and there was no reason why it should not have been done in the 

 times of the Romans. 



Alderman Bartkum thought the map which Mr, Green had 

 kindly brought before them was one of exceptional interest, and he 

 had cleared up many of the difiiculties which those who had taken 

 an interest in these subjects must have experienced. What had 

 struck him as strange was the similarity between the city as it 

 is, and as it was depicted on that map. 



Mt Shum said it was rather curious that the map, which Mr. 

 Green had shown them, exceedingly accurate as it was generally, 

 did not mark S. Lawrence's church which afterwards appeared 

 on the bridge. 



Mr. Green replied to the discussion, and, in the course of his 

 remarks, regretted that the Eoman Baths were left uncovered, 

 allowing the weather to act upon and injure the stones. It was a 

 question for a club like theirs to take up, and another question 

 was the style of architecture which was to be adopted in the new 

 building to be erected at the baths. From what he had read in a 

 local paper it seemed to him that it was to be Jacobean, but he 

 did not see why they might not, at any rate, endeavour to 

 reproduce the old state of things. He protested against any 

 other style of building being erected on a classical site. 



Photographs of the altar stone were exhibited, and the 

 Secretary alluded to the injury already taking place to the 



