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right, one of these tiles placed on its edge to complete the 

 band of stonework near the top. It fills a slot of about two 

 inches wide. There are several outside, in the older parts. 



The moat of the city was fed by the River Twyver. This 

 stream, which has been covered in during the recollection of 

 most of us, still runs along the north side, close to the wall. 

 Now on reaching the north-western angle, we come to a rather 

 sudden fall ; for the western front of the city was lower than 

 the other three sides. This will account for a Mill having stood 

 here in the time of the Abbe}^ of Gloucester — and very possibly 

 before and after that time. At all events. Palace Yard was 

 called Millard'' s* Green till within twenty years ago ; and the 

 late John Burrup once told me he had an old drawing of the 

 Mill, which formed part of his own house ; that is, in the left hand 

 corner going in from College Green. 



In looking back through the mediaeval Gloucester to the 

 Roman City, the foreshortening of the long line of centuries 

 traversed by the mental vision, produces some curious effects. 

 We see, not only the destruction of a piece of the original wall, 

 to make way for the Abbey, but some further changes following 

 on this. One of these changes was the erection of the limitary 

 wall of the College Precincts further westward than the Roman 

 city. There is evidence that a stream of water once flowed on 

 the outside of this wall. In building the chimney of the Crown 

 Brewery, they had to go down some 14 feet through made ground 

 to o-et a foundation ; and on the other side of the Westgate 

 Street, just within the lower entrance of Bearland, the mast 

 and part of the tackle of a hoat were found, in sinking a well. 

 The water of the Severn still covers nearly the whole of this area 

 in very high flood. 



Besides this, there is the philological evidence, in the names 

 " Water Street," "Docfcham" (i.e.. Dyke-ham, both Dock and 

 Dyke being from verbs signifying to cut,) and " St. Mary de 

 Lode" {i.e., " Saint Mary of the stream/') the parish outside 

 the wall in question. This lode or stream feeding the broad 



Millard = Mill-ward, keeper of the Mill. 



