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tunity of receiving instruction in both these articles from 
one of their own sex in a separate place and upon the 
same terms. Mr. Sheridan will be ready to receive the 
commands of any ladies or gentlemen upon this subject at 
— Bowers’s in Kingsmead St. Here is a clear and plain 
intimation not only that he lived in Kingsmead St but at 
“‘ Bowers’s in Kingsmead Street.” This would account for the 
intimacy between the families. 
In the rate book already mentioned William Herschel appears 
as sixty first on the list, and the last fixed point before him is the 
Wesley Chapel. If this point be taken as thirtieth on the list, 
there is a difference of thirty one houses between the two. The 
counting today is somewhat awkward but there now seem to be 
say sixteen (there may be seventeen) houses beyond the chapel 
westward on the north side, and then crossing the street to return 
by the south side, fifteen houses must be added from this side to 
make the thirty one, and this brings us exactly to the sixty first 
on the list, to William Herschel’s house, to the house which is to 
day No. 19. This is not mentioned as acceptable proof of any 
argument here but as showing how surprisingly and curiously the 
plan worked out considering the long time which has elapsed. 
Caroline Herschel in her Memoirs says she lived with her brother 
at No 19 New King St. Herschel had several house moves in 
his effort to get a required space for his workshops but Caroline 
does not give these quite fully. In 1775 and 1776 his name 
appears as twenty ninth on the rate list in Kingsmead St which 
would be on the north side near the Wesley Chapel, but the 
house is marked void. In 1777 he is still in the list twenty ninth, 
but the house is not void. In 1778 he appears in the list with 
two houses in Kingsmead St, the twenty ninth and the sixty first. 
The twenty ninth would be about our No 55 and this he vacated 
in 1779, settling then in the other on the south side, the No 19 
of to day, having a garden behind and an open space extending 
to the river, and here he remained until he left Bath. This No 
