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public the result of his enquiries therein, of which the present 

 contribution was by no means the least valuable. 



Several members joined in the discussion afterwards, and 

 questions were asked as to the position of the Chapel of St. 

 Lawrence, on the Old Bridge, and whether there was originally 

 a ford where Bridge Street now crosses the river, &c. '? 



The Secretary stated that Mr. Irvine was of opinion that 

 Bishop Ficzjocelin, who rebuilt the Churches of St. Marie and 

 St. Michael, inim muros, probably pulled down the Great Temple 

 in Bath, and used up the materials for that purjjose. A window, 

 possibly of the Church he pulled down, was found during the 

 White Hart excavations, and is now, together with a fragment of 

 a Saxon cross found at the same time and place, in the Bath 

 Museum. Two other fragments of Saxon crosses which are also 

 in the Museum, were found when the Grand Pump Koom was 

 built in 1790. 



Local history had another able exponent in Mr. Emanuel 

 Green, who read a paper on January 11th, on "A Bath Poll 

 Tax : 2, Ilichard IL" In the discussion which followed, Mr. 

 Morgan asked Avhether the estimate of the population was not 

 rather small, and whether it would not be increased very much 

 by large numbers of beggars, and whether there were not many 

 serfs in the city 'I 



Other members desired to know what the servants would be 

 that were mentioned in the records, also whether the records 

 referred to were the property of the Bath Corporation ? 



Canon Ellacombe said it was a curious thing that whilst 

 the names of nearly all trades were preserved in surnames of 

 the present day that of shoemaker seemed to have vanished. 

 They had " Schumacher " in Germany, and he was interested to 

 hear the name "Sutor" in Mr. Green's list. He thought the 

 reason that so few children were mentioned was because many of 

 them might be apprentices and included under that head in the 

 record. He supposed that if the majority of people were asked 



