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money passed, but certain springs of water on Castle Down were 

 conveyed to the City, and the family house in Grove Street was 

 made over for use as a gaol. 



We cannot now even accurately fix the spot on which this 

 ancient Church stood. 



A Bath Poll Tax, 2, Richard IL By E. Green, F.S.A. 

 (Bead Wth January, 1888^. 



In my last communication I brought before you the first known 

 map of our City, endeavouring generally at the same time to work 

 out its picture from the earliest records ; but as those notes 

 applied entirely to the plan then produced and the surrounding 

 walls, it remains next to fill the enclosure with a population, — 

 with the living and moving makers of history. Of our later 

 times in this respect we know much, but of the early days we 

 know almost nothing. The documents now offered will it is 

 hoped, — as a first instalment, — help to throw some light on 

 several obscure points, such as the number of inhabitants and 

 their local status, or occupations, or wealth, subjects of no mean 

 interest, only to be worked out from the class of record here 

 either quoted or transcribed. 



There is also the question of Christian and Surname ; from 

 what origin or under what influence did they arise ; the extent 

 to which Surnames had become general and whether derived from 

 merely personal peculiarities, or from places, or from occupations. 

 English names derived from places do not imply territorial posses- 

 sions, as so many hastily assume, but on the contrary, they are 

 marks simply of residence or a birth of the lowliest, in fact but 

 for such local designation there was no other name. The early 

 Law proceedings are full of such instances when the witnesses are 

 only given as John of this place or of another. The names of 

 territorial influence, for the most part Norman, were given to, 



