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It would appear that in the Transition period the procession 

 path and chapels were pulled down, and a building of the same 

 width as that to the W. was extended nearly to the city wall, 

 terminating in a square east end. The bases exposed at the east 

 end are, I believe, those of the junction of the extension with 

 the apse ; the large round base of the pier being that of the 

 arch of the apse, the two smaller members being those of the 

 extension. 



I fear I have been too long and tired out your patience by 

 giving you many words and little matter. I thank you for your 

 kind attention, and await with interest your criticisms on what I 

 feel to be a venture beyond my power to handle as it deserves. 



Bath Lay Suhsidies, Henry IV. to Henry Fill By Emanuel 

 Green, F.S.A. 



(Bead 9th January, 1889^. 



In my Paper read last year, a notice was given of all the 

 earliest documents preserved in the Record Office relating to the 

 taxation of Bath, leading up to the Poll Tax of Eichard 11, who 

 died in 1399. In continuation, all other Subsidy Eolls, dating 

 from the time of Henry IV., A.d. 1400, to the end of the reign of 

 Henry VIII., A.D. 1547, are now examined, thus exhausting the 

 returns of this class to the last named date. Unlike a Poll Tax 

 a Subsidy was a tax on property, so that whilst the former 

 helped us to some speculations as to the population of its time 

 and their occupations, the latter will aid towards a realisation of 

 the value of the principal properties and give us the names of 

 the leading inhabitants. 



The first document to be noticed is one of the second year of 

 Henry IV., 1401, entitled the account of John Marreys and 

 John Pochon, collectors of a tenth of all moveable goods of 

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