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To have come over Bath Bridge he would have been obliged 
to make too great a detour, and left his flank exposed. His 
direct road would have been down Bathwick Hill, and then he 
could have easily thrown out his men along the hill from Larkhall 
‘to Woolley, which position we know he held when the Royalists 
-arrived, and this point he could scarcely have gained had he 
marched round by the Bath Bridge or have taken up if he had 
crossed the ford at Bathampton. 
These notes are made because we ought to chronicle every 
discovery connected with the ancient history of any parish, for it is 
only by such means that we can learn what took place centuries 
ago. Mistakes can be corrected and light thrown on points 
which are difficult to understand if we do not possess such 
knowledge. 
Of numismatics I am quite ignorant, but, through the 
kindness of the Rev. J. F. Poynton, Rector of Kelston, and 
Messrs. H. A. Grueber, F.S.A., and G. F. Hill, of the British 
Museum, I was able to discover the period over which the coins 
extended. 
The Elm, with a Notice of some Remarkable Varieties in the 
Victoria Park, Bath. By T. FReDERIc INMAN, Vice- 
President. 
(Read January 15th, 1902.) 
Most of us know that there are two kinds of Elm common in © 
the neighbourhood. 
If you walk on the New Warminster Road, towards Claverton, 
you will find during the last half mile, the road passes through 
Elms on both sides. It is a good place to compare the two 
species. 
Those on the left are the Scotch Elm, U/mus Montana. Those 
on the right, the English Elm, U/mus Campestris. 
