Try, 
Treasurer’s book, giving the names of all Subscribers holding 
shares in the ‘‘ Vauxhall or Sidney Gardens in 1803” ; from this 
- list it appears that 34 “‘ double shares ” of £200 were then held 
and g “single shares”’ of £100 (of these latter Sir William 
Pulteney, Bart, and Lady Bath held one each), or 77 shares 
in all, to a total value of £7,700., the Ground Rent then being 
£142. 12s. od. 

At the S.E. angle of Sydney House, or as it was afterwards 
known, Sydney Hotel, in the basement was carried on for many 
years a public-house, presumably for the accommodation of 
coach and chair-men, and other attendants of fashionable fre- 
quenters of the gardens; as in common with all the other Bath 
pleasure resorts announcements continually recur ‘“‘ Servants 
in Livery will not be admitted ” to the gardens. 
The title of this public-house was frequently changed ; in 
1805 it was known as the Sidney Tap, in 1809 as the Royal 
_ Tap, then as the Sydney Garden Tavern, later as the Pulteney 
Tap. The small brass check, illustrated, is of much later 
date than the other pieces, and is of interest as showing the 
attic story on the front, an addition to the Hotel probably in 
1840. 
The quaint old-fashioned fittings of this, certainly not an 
open-air resort, the writer saw some years ago, slowly decaying 
relics of a bygone age. 

I have to acknowledge the kindness of Montagu Guest, 
Esq. (London), in loaning the rare Bathwick Villa piece, from 
which the illustration is taken ; and also of Mr. Meehan (Bath) 
for the loan of the block illustrating the Villa itself. 
