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javelins. The procession banqueted at the Town Hall, and 

 the night was spent in dancing. 



About the same time a resolution of the Town Council 

 was passed in these words : — 



" Agreed, the Crown of Thorns on the Cross in the Cross Bath, and 

 the Cross there, and all other superstitious things belonging 

 thereto shall be taken down, and the letters thereon inscribed 

 shall be obliterated." 



It would seem from this that the Revolution was warmly- 

 welcomed in Bath, but in 1715, in 1718, and in 1745 there 

 was a strong party in the city ready to invoke civil war to 

 bring back the Stuarts, whose defeat had been the subject 

 of such rejoicing. 



The Seventeenth Century. 



We have already referred to some of the historical events 

 which agitated the nation and were reflected upon Bath 

 during this period, but, that the phenomenal character of the 

 Renaissance of the City in the eighteenth century may be 

 appreciated, it is necessary to point out the depth from 

 which the rise was to take place. 



As early as 1562 Dr. Turner, who was at once a physician 

 and Dean of Wells, wrote a treatise on the Bath waters. 

 He had, during his exile under Queen Mary, visited the 

 continental Spas, and was shocked to see, on his return, 

 how little the great natural advantages of Bath had been 

 utilized. Men and women bathed together, often naked; 

 the baths were open to the weather, and the bathers to the 

 jibes, and sometimes the pelting, of the public who loitered 

 in a public passage overlooking the bath. The waters were 

 contaminated with the foulest matters — dead animals being 

 often cast into them. 



