ai3 



generation or so ago, or the Almas, Alberts, Victorias and 

 Alexandras of to-day. Of the street names given Bynbury 

 Strete remains as Bynbury Lane. Sowter Stret, with its sug- 

 gestive but unexplained name, has disappeared. By y® Bathe 

 Strete, spelled in one document Byy'Bay* St., may have a 

 fair representative in the Bath Street of to-day. This position 

 leads to the conclusion that the baths used were the Cross 

 bath and the Common bath ; the King's bath was enclosed 

 behind the houses then facing Stall Street, standing on the site 

 of the now Queen's bath and the western end of the Pump 

 Eoom, and was in fact Crown private property within the pre- 

 cincts of the Priory. Stall Street was evidently the thorough- 

 fare, but how was Southgate Street without the walls within the 

 city jurisdiction, or how came it that Walcot Street and Broad 

 Street are included. Such questions perhaps take us back to 

 Domesday and the subject of hidage, so they must be passed 

 here for this occasion. Yet, with Walcot Street, Broad Street 

 and Southgate Street outside the walls, their inhabitants must 

 be deducted from the previous estimate when attempting to 

 determine the population within the walls. 



Much has been said from time to time of the former industrial 

 occupations of the city of Bath, and assertions have been made 

 that great wealth was accumulated from the woollen trade once 

 existing : all such statements being from tradition and as yet 

 almost entirely without any supporting evidence. In these EoUs 

 this question receives some assistance, as besides the often re- 

 curring names of Dyer, Fuller, Webbe, i.e. Webber, and Tucker, 

 there are actually as traders three textors or weavers and six 

 folators or fullers so returned^ enough in such a population to 

 warrant the conclusion that these industries were briskly carried 

 on. Then there are eleven filators, mostly women, whose 

 occupation must have been that of spinsters or spinners of yarn 

 in connection with this same woollen business. In one case 

 too there is just a help towards explaining the work of the often 

 X 



