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down to fourpence for the ''general," not being really mendicants. 

 Married couples paid at a single rate. The Roll here transcribed 

 consists of three consecutive membranes duly indented, and by 

 good fortune the counter indenture or duplicate also exists, or, on 

 account of the decay of the ink, without such duplicate the 

 names could not have been read. The business of deciphering 

 has been certainly most troublesome and fatiguing, and not- 

 withstanding often examination and every care it is more than 

 possible that some names may bear a different reading. The 

 occupations however, perhaps the chief point, will be found 

 correct. The document is not only of extreme interest as giving 

 full names of persons and their occupations, but it also by a 

 happy chance gives the names of the streets in which they lived, 

 so that we have presumably a complete Directory for the city in the 

 year 1379. It will be seen that the Mayor begins, an early 

 notice of one, perhaps the earliest actually named. 



CITY OF BATH. 

 Indenture made the fourth day of June, in the second year of 

 King Eichard the Second after the conquest, between John 

 Gregory, John Natton and Eobert Compe, assessors of the 

 Subsidy of (iiij.) pence, for the lord the King on the one part, and 

 Robert Wattes, Richard Ford, John Swayne and John Cherde, 

 collectors of the same on the other part, from all the men and 

 women of the age of xvj. years, true mendicants excepted. 



John Natton, Maior, — (xs). 



SOWTHEYATE STRET. 

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