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well acquainted with this district, and was fully aware that the 
stables of Sir T. Bridges, at Keynsham, were a most convenient 
place to detain prisoners. 
The M. B. July 28th, 1686, notes—‘‘ Mr James Burton bids 
10% to drowne six years and to take a new lease for 99 yeares. 
If Anne Burton wife of James Burton and James Burton & 
Bethia Burton Sonne and daughter of the sd James Burton” 
“‘of and in one Garden adjoyning to Barton House.” This 
proposal was agreed to. On the 29th of June, 1696, ‘ Mr. 
James Burton bids 54 to add the lives of Elizabeth Burton wife 
of the sd James Burton & Bertha Burton daughter of” &c. “in 
one close or garden contayning two acres two roods and halfe a 
lugge lyinge in the prsh of S* Michaell.” On the 29th of March, 
1697, is the query, ‘‘ What shall Mr. James Burton pay yearly for 
his encroachment in his new buildings in the house wherein he 
now dwelleth—Agreede for ros yearly.” The grounds leased to 
Burton in 1686 and his house are clearly shewn on Gilmore’s 
Map of 1694, the garden extending from the Barton ditch on the 
east side of the present John Street to the rear of the houses in 
Broad Street. Some sixty years later this extensive garden was 
known as ‘“‘ Milsom’s Garden,” from its then teriant, and the 
present Milsom Street covers the site. 
The house occupied by Burton the rent of which was 
increased on account of his “new buildings,” apparently stood 
on the site of Mr. Eve’s premises at the rear of the present 
Nos. 8 and 9g Broad Street, and possibly was one of the houses 
mentioned by Wood in 1749 as being then used “for the 
Reception of the Poor of the Parish of S* Peter and Paul and 
that of S* James.” 
Of the Citizens who figured in the history of 17th Century Bath 
few are now remembered, and certainly none are so prominently 
recalled at the present time as James Burton the issuer of the 
token, for the modern Burton Street is no corruption of Berton or 
Barton, but is a record that its site was the old narrow way which 
