General History of Bath. 



^Vhite Lion Hotel gave him shelter, and took him through 

 his back premises to the river, and thence in a boat to a 

 place of safety. On the nth May, 1780, martial law was 

 proclaimed, and the vigorous action of the military reduced 

 the mob to subjection. John Butler was tried at Wells as 

 the ringleader of the rioters, and was executed in Bell Tree- 

 lane, the scene of his violence. The next year Dr. Brewer 

 recovered, in an action against the Hundred, .£3,700 as 

 compensation. 



We have already mentioned the increase of 



^ "' !"^° the population during this phenomenal cen- 

 tury. The expansion of the city itself is 

 still more remarkable. At the commencement of the 

 century the mediaeval walls enclosed the whole area built 

 upon, except a suburb clustering around St. Michael's 

 Church, and a few mean houses in Southgate-street. These 

 walls enclosed a small pentagon ; it is difficult for us to real- 

 ize how small. The stranger entered the city at the north 

 gate, where the opening from High-street to Bridge-street 

 now is, and left it at the south gate, hard by St. James's 

 Church. The west gate was at the end of the buildings of 

 the same name, and the east gate opened on to the strand of 

 the Avon. 



In 177s the north and south gates were removed, and 

 twenty years later the west gate. The east gate can still be 

 seen in Slaughterhouse-lane, at the back of the Market. 



The first of Wood's great enterprizes was Queen-square, 

 which was built in 1729; the North and South Parades 

 followed, and then the Circus, Milsom-street, Edgar-build- 

 ings, and the Royal Crescent. 



Wood was aided and afterwards succeeded by his son, 

 and, before the end of the century, their example had raised 



