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and in which Mr. Davis found reason to believe that he had traces 

 of the arms of Richard, King of the Romans. This was interesting 

 as the remains of ecclesiastical work wliich had entirely dis- 

 appeared ; they had solid remains of the Church of John de 

 Villula, but they had lost all trace of the work done from his time 

 down to the present Church. That discovery showed there had 

 been intermediate work in the choir, which, if it was all of the 

 same character as the floor, must have been very elaborate and 

 beautiful. 



Mr. C. E. Davis followed at the invitation of the Chairman. 

 He said he had only very little to add, because he hoped to make 

 a paper respecting what he had seen in the course of the work 

 now going on. He felt certain from the excavations that Bath 

 must have been desolate, as Mr. Earle had said, and he thought 

 the time must have been 200 years or more — certainly more than 

 100. But he should be sorry to give up Osric's monastery, and 

 he thought that, if a small house, it might have been founded 

 without stopping the work of desolation, and without leading to 

 an inhabitation of the city. In his opinion Bath was likely to be 

 chosen for such a purpose, because it was a naturally strong 

 position, occupying a cliff as it were in the centre of the valley ; 

 the river washing two sides, with the advantage of a marsh where 

 the Ham Gardens now are, or rather were ; and if the weir at 

 what is called Monk's Mill had not been broken down, the Roman 

 ditch beneath the walls would be flooded on the north and east of 

 the ruined city, extending as far as the East Gate. He thought 

 there was little doubt that the weir was Roman work and was placed 

 for the double purpose — a mill, and a dam to throw the water at 

 a high level as a fortification. Leland mentioned a mill worked 

 by warm water, and s'ome years ago a water-wheel was found in 

 Swallow Street, confirming his statement, but the water that 

 turned it was not solely hot water, but the outflow of the diverted 

 water of the city he had just explained. He had found a number 

 of large stones from Roman buildings ; some were already in 



