Reprinted from Keene's Bath Journal, January 21, 1911 and based on a lecture given by Rev. Shickle at the Royal Institution using evidence from council records. Includes the following: Old foot paths (foot paths around the city), pp. 2-4; The Fosse Way (the Roman road as it came through Bath), pp. 4-6; A profitable omission (a dispute betweent he Prior of Bath Priory Church/Bath Abbey and William Crouch, a lawyer over the advowson of St. John's Hospital at the time of the Dissolution), pp. 6-7; Bath under the Commonwealth, (short accounts of incidents that took place under the Protectorate). pp. 8-10; Bath in the time of the Stuarts (the topography of the city at this time based on Gilmore's map of 1694), pp.10-11; Bath's earliest smokers, pp. 11-12; A king in pyjamas (an incident in Westgate Street involving |James I of England and VI of Scotland), p. 12; Killed by a rapier (the accidental killing of Jonathan Piggott, Lord Willoughby's servant, by Lord Norris in 1618), p. 12; The old Guildhall (a short architectural description of the building built in the sixteenth century that once stood in the middle of the High Street), p. 13; A curious episode in Bath History (an incident concerning a lawsuit over the building of a wall between Mr Harrison of the Lower Assembly Rooms and the Bath Corporation), pp. 14-15.
