102 



to serve the king.* Thus for nearly one hundred years the name 

 of Hosat is associated with Bath.+ 



The name Huyset occurs in 1301 as a manucaptor or bonds- 

 man to the Sheriff for the due attendance and faithful service in 

 Parliament of the citizens of Bath who were retm-ned, and liable to 

 a heavy fine if these duties were neglected, t The Rev. W. H. 

 Jones, of Bradford-on-Avon, after his lecture at the Institution, 

 Jan. 21, 1870, remarked that "something had been said respecting 

 his opinion as to the translation of the name Harding or Harden to 

 Durus. He was certain there were such translations. In the 

 Wilts Domesday there was a person described as Robertus Flavus, 

 being a translation of the name Robert Blond, or Fair Robert. 

 Again there was the name Robertus Hosetus, a man who wore hose ; 

 Wilhelmus Dispensator, from which comes the modem name 

 Spencer, all instances in which the Norman scribe did translate the 

 word." 



In the year 1332 we have mention of the Chapel as connected 

 with the Hospital under the name of St. Cross and St. Mary Mag- 

 dalene, of which more presently. || 



About the year 1421 occurred the contest between the citizens 

 of Bath and the monks as to the right of ringing the bells, and a 

 William Aishley is mentioned by Warner as chaplain of St. Mary 

 Magdalene, and one of the conspirators against the prior's privi- 

 leges, insisting on ringing the Chapel beU before the prior's bell, 

 but I know not on what authority Warner states him to have been 

 chajplain of St. Mary Magdalene, as he is only spoken of in the deed 

 referred to as " Willelmus Aishley, capellamis." And how came the 

 chaplain to act thus, when the Chapel and hospital were under the 

 control of the Abbey 1 § 



* Warner, App., p. 16, xxvii. Lib. Nig. Scac, p. 86. 

 f Exon Domesday Book, page 41, fol. 47 ; page 68, fol. 76 ; page 171, fol. 185 ; 

 page 172, fol. 186 ; page 430, fol. 464i ; page 483, fol. 619 ; page 419. Winton 

 Domesday Book, page 31. Eev. W. H, Jones's Domesday Book for 

 Wiltshire, pages 103, 154, and 234. 



X Warner, p. 171, note. Prynne, " Brev. Pari. Red." 298. 



II Tanner's " Notitia Monastica." Report of Charity Commission, 1820. 



{ Waxner, p. 123. Warner, App., p. 24, ili; p. 46, li. 



