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in open and exposed Places ; and Carnwell being the First, the 
Water issues out of a Spout in the back Wall of an Alcove, 
formerly placed on the west side of Waldcot Street, where a High 
Cross or Tower antiently surmounted the Mouth of the Spring, 
and stood a small matter within the North End of Saint Michael’s 
Parish. The Sides and Covering of this Alcove were lately taken 
down to widen the Road before it; and the Workmen, by 
penetrating into the adjoining Banks to continue on the additional 
Breadth of the Way, or Street, met with huge Blocks of Wrought 
- Stones as the strongest Testimonies of a Publick Structure once 
existing in the Situation.” 
Amongst the Bath Abbey Chartularies (published by the 
Somerset Record Society) Lincoln M.S., No. 171, is a Deed 
dated A.D. 1268, one of the witnesses to it being Robert de 
Cornwell. Whether this Robert took his name from the district 
or had any connection with Bath there is nothing to show. 
Another Deed, No. 384, ‘“‘Covenant made on the Feast of St. 
Martin, 1290, between Thomas, Prior, &c., and Thomas Noy, and 
Agnes his wife, by which the Prior grants to the said Thomas and 
Agnes, a house with a curtilage in Walcote juxta Cornwell, the 
site whereof pertains to the Kitchen of Bath. Witnesses : Stephen 
Baker then Mayor of Bath, John Tailor, then reeve, and others. 
Nassau House is said to have been built by Richard Boyle, 
4th Earl of Cork, and at one time occupied by the Prince of 
Orange, when he was here taking the Bath Waters. It formed 
one of a block of buildings that stood on the east side of Orange 
Grove, and was pulled down in 1go1 for the purpose of making a 
road in front of the Empire Hotel. 
