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17th, 1765, Pope removed his office from Stall Street to S. 
James’s Street. This was the corner house, facing 8. James’s 
Church and Weymouth House. Here the office remained for 
many years, and later on the words “next the Church” were 
introduced into the ornament on. the title, a motto which now- 
a days would be taken in two ways. On August 4th, 1768, 
the paper appeared as “ Archer’s Bath Chronicle,”’* and we find 
by advertisement that Pope having given up business in Bath, 
and intending to reside elsewhere, had sold the concern to 
William Archer, who had been his manager for two years, On 
September 29th, in the same year, R. Cruttwell however became 
his senior partner, and the title was changed to ‘‘The Bath and 
Bristol Chronicle (late Mr. C. Pope’s),” but the attempt to 
command Bristol was soon given up, and the existing title, 
“The Bath Chronicle,” assumed on September 13th, 1770. On 
October 5th, 1769, William Archer retired from the business, 
having taken the White Swan Inn at Devizes. R. Cruttwell 
was a very good printer, “ Warner's History of Bath’ and 
“ Collinson’s History of Somerset” being among the works that 
issued from his press. 
It is currently stated, on the title of the paper at present and 
elsewhere, that “‘The Bath Chronicle” was started in 1757, but 
the number before you marked ‘Vol. 1., No. 1,” incontestibly 
proves that it was started in 1760. It is curious that in this 
case as in that of the “Journal,” such a mistake should have 
arisen, and I have been at the trouble to trace it out, with the 
aid of Mr. Russell. A little preliminary explanation is however 
necessary before it can be understood. Newspapers, it will be 
remembered, print at the top of the first page the name or title, 
and immediately beneath the date of publication. In the same 
line is usually placed the further information, “ Vol. 00, No. 00.” 
The volume, in the case of a newspaper, is always an annual 
one, and the figures should therefore indicate the number of 
* In the possession of Mr. R. E, Peach. 
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