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“‘Bath,” but the writer “now claims to have documentary evidence 
“in confirmation of it.” First here Mr. Thomas Sheridan came to 
Bath in 1770 but Richard was not with him. Richard did not 
come until he left his tutor in 1771. Then the little pamphlet 
entitled—Memorable Houses in Bath—is by—Citizen—and can 
only be known or recognised by that name. Also Citizen as a 
pseudonym was William Titley not James. To this constant 
error it was again well but too mildly replied that—in view of the 
fact that the evidence is not produced the “discovery” loses all 
its interest* ; and it might have been added that Citizen’s state- 
ment remained still unsupported. Notwithstanding _ this 
criticism the story has been repeated in a book bearing a some- 
what similar title,t with the addition,—it is clear that for 
- some portion of his stay in Bath he (Sheridan) was in occupation 
of a house in the Lower Walks in more recent years known as 
No. 7. Besides that Sheridan, at this time a youthful idleton, 
_ never was in occupation of any house in Bath, here the Terrace 
Walk of the former statement becomes the Lower Walks thus 
4 adding to the muddle, and still withal, it must be distinctly 
repeated, that in the absence of evidence the story remains 
certainly not clear It is only clear that one unsupported 
_ statement can be of no more worth than another. The little 
brochure noticed—Memorable Houses &c. by Citizen—is 
_ perhaps as full of errors as such a small thing can be. It had 
_ but a short life; but few copies got abroad, yet enough alas to 
be quoted without troubling to verify or test the authority. Thus 
_ to the Terrace Walk story Citizen adds,—it is said—(is said ! !) 
_ that he (Sheridan) wrote several of his plays there. Remembering 
g ‘the short time that Richard really lived at Bath, that he was then 
_ a youth in his teens, and besides that the dates of his plays are 
_ known such a statement becomes very hard reading. The “Walks,” 
_ originally a raised ground to give a view over the wall eastward, 
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* Bath Herald. + ‘Famous Houses” &c. by J. F, Meehan: 
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