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visits at Prior Park. Bath tradition says that wlieu 

 Allen took the money of the executors, he remarked 

 that if Mr. Pope intended it as a compensation and 

 not as a compliment, he should have added another 

 cypher. The Bath Hospital received the benefit of 

 the bequest, for Allen immediately presented the 

 money to the hospital. The records of the hospital 

 prove this part of the story, it being expressly stated 

 that the 200Z. presented by Mr. Allen was the money 

 bequeathed to him by Mr. Pope. 



[39] Fielding lived at a house in the part of 

 Twiverton nearest to Bath. 



[40] One of the best of these is entitled The 

 Wonders of a Week in Bath, anonymous, never owned 

 by its author, who is shrewdly suspected to be a man 

 of no small celebrity, and perhaps soon withdrawn 

 from circulation, as it is rarely ever to be seen. 



[41] The Pleader's Guide shows that the son of 

 Anstey had much of the spirit and peculiar genius 

 of the father. 



If I had meant to speak of every person who is 

 connected with Bath by any tie, who have also a 

 name in the literature of the country, I must have 



