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which they take in its prosperity; yet it is to be 

 wished, if for nothing else but for the honour of 

 Bath, that so valuable a gift, transmitted from a 

 generation almost passed away, should not perish in 

 the hands of a race less alive to its value and im- 

 portance. 



[4] The proof of this is found in the Julius Vitalis 

 inscription, about which so much has been written. 



[5] Following some indifferent authority, I had 

 before called this person John Chandler, but his 

 name was certainly Thomas. Since this paper was 

 written, I have had the good fortune to ascertain that 

 his treatise in praise of the cities of Bath and Wells 

 is not lost. Having occasion in 1834, soon after I 

 had left Bath, to search for historical manuscripts in 

 the libraries at Cambridge, I discovered in the library 

 of Trinity College a volume containing this treatise 

 and several others, all the work of Chandler. The 

 volume had belonged to Bishop Beckington, the 

 friend of Chandler, and is unquestionably the very 

 book which Leland saw in the library at Wells. 



The press-mark of the manuscript in its present 

 depositary is E. xiv. 5. 



There was a pleasure in the recovery of what, as 

 far as my knowledge had gone, was a lost historical 



