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were sometimes admitted here. They had their own dining-hall and 
chaplain. It was here that the monks were removed to recover from 
their bleedings, which took place twice a year, it being sometimes three 
or four days before they were fit to take up their oi'dinary duties again. 
The Little Cloisters were really the foi'mer Infirmary garden. The small 
house adjoining was once used, among other purposes, for preparing 
“ simples ” and the mixing of potions. A few minutes spent in Pitt-street 
gave Mr Baddeley an opportunity of showing what was left of the Abbot’s 
Palace, which had been replaced l)y the present Bishop’s Palace some 50 
or 60 years ago. In the Palace Yard, which Mr Waller said used to be 
called Miller’s Green, were formerly the mill and workshops of the Monastery, 
and the water there used had been turned to good purpose long before by 
the neighbouring monks of St. Oswald’s Priory. Passing into the Green 
again, Mr Waller said there was a time when he thought all monastic 
masonry was good, but since he had been excavating the foundations of 
St. Mary’s Gateway, or the Broad Gate, as it was once called, he had 
altered his opinion. He had had prepared a specimen of the foundation 
re-formed in order to show its faulty construction. 
The room over the Gateway, once the living chamber of the Constable 
of the Green, was visited, and Mr Waller’s graphic description of the 
ruinous condition in which he found the structure was certainly not exag- 
gerated. This is now in course of very careful restoration by Mr Waller, 
who has, incidentally, been able to reveal some most interesting features of 
the bviilding — one, a fine Tudor fire-place. 
In the Cloisters, Mr Baddeley said in most monasteries the cloisters 
were situated on the south, but at Gloucester, Cirencester, and Tintern, they 
were found on the north side, a site determined by the local water supply. 
The monks’ lavatory and the connecting drains, remains of which still exist 
in the Garth, were described, and also the characteristics of the three other 
cloister-alleys, and the former Refectory. 
GREY FRIARS (A.D. 1230). 
After lunch the members assembled at Grey Friars, where Mr Baddeley 
discoursed on the various later monastic houses of Gloucester, which were 
founded within a comparatively few years of each other, and mav have 
given rise to the saying “As sure as God’s in Gloucester.’’ Besides the 
Franciscans (Grey Friars) there were the Dominicans (Black or Preaching 
Friars) within a few hundred yards of where they were standing ; in the 
north, where the Cattle Market now stands, were the Carmelites (White 
Friars), and, at Llanthony, the Augustinians. ;\ 11 these distinct Houses (ex- 
cepting the last) were founded in the reign of that sincerely pious but weak 
monarch Henry HI. Monastic influence was shown by the number of abbots 
and priors who sat as barons in Parliament. With the Franciscans a revolu- 
tionary reaction set in. They professed humility, and were mendicants 
under the vow of poverty, going about barefooted, and possessing at first 
no painted churches or property at all, yet claiming the right to preach 
from any priest’s pulpit. Within 45 years of its foundation, the order of 
St. Francis, so popular had it grown, became the idchest in Europe, and a 
