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I had all the plaster knocked off so that the cots can now be 
fraced, and a few of them are opened so that their construction 
can be seen. ‘Traces of grain were found in all the pigeon holes 
that were opened. 
The history of this monastery (which was the first Carthusiar 
house founded in England) with an account of the rule and 
life of the Monks of this Order, is fully dealt with in Miss 
Thompson’s “History of the Carthusians in Somerset ;” and 
interesting papers on Witham, with theories as to the Church 
and other buildings are to be found in the “Somerset Archzeo- 
logical Transactions” of 1887 and 1893. Viollet-le-duc gives 
a good description of a typical Carthusian Monastery, with 
a plan, in his “ Dictionnaire de lArchitecture,” Vol. I., p. 307. 
A small book, published since I read my notes, entitled “ Hugh 
of Lincoln” also deals with this place, S. Hugh having been the 
third Prior of Witham. 
I trust that some day the site of the whole Monastery will be 
properly explored, so that the plan may be traced of this, the 
earliest and most interesting of all the English Carthusian houses, 
in the same way as it has been done at Mount Grace, in York- 
shire, which belonged to the same Order; then and then 
only can this vexed question be settled, whether the 
Monastery at Witham followed the usual Carthusian plan, or 
was divided, as some consider was the case, into two establish- 
ments (one for the Monks and the other for the Lay Brothers) 
about a mile apart. 
Ancient Roman Coins Discovered at Bathwick. By the 
Rev. C. W. SHIcKLE, M.A., F.S.A. 
(Read December 18th, gor.) 
That much money has been lost at the Old Bathwick Brewery 
would be readily assented to by the advocates of Total Abstinence, 
and that no modern coins should have been found in levelling the 
