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extended to the city walls, and so did tlie parish of Walcot, and 

 Stalls parish pressed hard upon the intervening district from the 

 other side. 



The Church was situate just within the Northgate, and across 

 what is now the junction of Bridge Street with High Street. 

 It must have been very ancient because we read of its repair by 

 Fitz Jocelin in 1190. In the reign of Edward VI. the charitable 

 property annexed to Stalls Church for lights to burn before 

 statues, anniversary masses and doles, was stated to be £2 16s. id. 

 per annum, and that annexed to St. Mary's intra muros, to be 

 £4 Os. 2d. It is clear, however, that these returns were false, 

 and it is probable that both these Churches had considerable 

 property belonging to them, much as was proved to be the case 

 with regard to the Church of St. Michael extra muros. 



At the Dissolution the monastic property in Bath was granted 

 to a speculator, Humphrey CoUes, CoUes sold to Mathew 

 Colthurst, and the property descended from him to Edmund 

 Colthurst. Colthurst thus became possessed of, of course, the 

 Abbey Church, and the Eectory of St. Mary intra muros, and 

 St. Mary de Stalls and the advowson of the other parish Churches. 

 The citizens agreed with Colthurst for the acquisition of 

 this Church property. The royal licence M'as required to the 

 conveyance, and in a " remembrance " to Lord Burleigh the 

 citizens thus stated their views : — 



" And that whereas there are 3 little Churches decayed 



within the said city, that the parishes thereof may be 



annexed to the great Church by the assent of the 



Ordinary there and that your lordships orators may 



have the advowson thereof by grant of the Queen." 



The licence asked for was given on the 21st November, 1572. 



It was not, however, for 10 years that the scheme could be 



even partially carried out. There were several reasons. In the 



first place there was an Incumbent of Stalls, one Henry 



Adams. This ecclesiastic had in 1571 been presented by Sir 



