"rent of £4 per annum for a house which went across the bridge at the top, called afterward the chapel house." When the bridge was finally taken down in 1763, the two rooms just mentioned on the level of the street were used as shops, and the chapel itself as a warehouse.-Such was the singular structure, over which our ancestors passed for many centuries. The account here given of it was collected with great difficulty, and is (as I hope) accurate, so far as it extends: but some particulars still remain, uncertain and obscure, occasioned for the most part by the extreme negligence of Will' Worcester or (as I rather suppose) his transcriber. Let the reader turn to p' 209 "Portæ duæ---16 gressus," and he must at once acknowledge the difficulty of compiling a consistent narrative from such materials. The remainder of its history is reserved for another place.

§ 54. The cutting of the quay and the building of the bridge were transactions so important, that they must have given a new character to the town; they may be considered as forming an æra in it's history; and therefore the reader will probably be pleased to see the map, which I have drawn up as representing the town soon after these events, that is from 1250 to 1350 or thereabout. The references are as follow.-1. The Abbey church of St Augustine.-2. The Abbot's Lodging, now the Bishop's Palace, with the cloysters and the other parts of the Abbey.-3. Parish church of St Augustine the less.-4. Lower or inner Green.-5. The monastery of St Marks', situate on St Augustine's Green.-6. Chapel of St Brendan; it was on the highest part of the hill.—7. The monastery of the Carmelites: the road which ran through their garden on the north, above their house, is now Trenchard-lane, above which is their lodge, called the Red-Lodge; and still further is their Little Lodge, now Mr. Wright's.-8. The three kings of Cologne, or Forster's Almshouse.— 9. The Priory of St Bartholomew's, now the city school: above them high up on the hill is their White Lodge.-10. The Grey Friers or Franciscans : their garden, &c. is separated from the Bartholomews by Johnny Ball's Lane. The small house in the corner, in St James's churchyard, is a small friery.—11. St James's Barton with the Grange.-12. The full moon,

apparently a very ancient hostellerie.-13. Broad Mead.-14. The Marshgate on the Back.-15. A part of the present King-street.-16. Marshstreet gate.-17. Viell's Great Tower.-18. The Bridge, now the Drawbridge.-19. St Stephen's.-20. St Leonard's church and gate.-21. St Giles.-22. St Lawrence.-23. St John.-24. The Guildhall.-25. St Ewin.-26. Christ-church.-27. St Andrew.-28. All Saints and the Calendaries.-29. St Werburgh.-30. St Nicholas.-31. StMaryport.-32. St Peter.-33. Newgate.-34. St Martin in the Castle.-35. Earl Robert's great dongeon tower.-36. The great hall and chapel, and the rest of the Palace.—37. The Old Market.—38. The Austin Friers within Temple-gate. -39. Spycer's Hospital.-40. Burton's Almshouse.-41.Weaver's Hall and Hospital.-42. St Thomas's Church.-43. The Austin Friers of St John Baptist in Redcliffe Pitt, with a Chapel of theirs in Redcliffe Church-yard. 44. A Hermitage in the rock.

§ 55. The bridge being finished, our Calendars say that the incorporation of Redcliffe with Bristol took place immediately. But this requires explanation. Redcliffe was a subordinate manor dependent on the manor of Bedminster, which belonged to the Saxon lords, and from them descended to Robert Consul of Gloucester. At that time it comprehended the whole district, which lies on the left bank of the Avon, viz. the parishes of St Mary, St Thomas, and Temple. Of this estate Robert consul granted to the knights Templars that part which was afterward the parish of Temple, and which then became a separate manor called Temple-fee: the remainder still called Redcliff, partly within the bounds of the vill and partly without he sold to Robert Fitzharding. There must have been many inhabitants of Redcliffe and Temple-fee, before the building of the stone bridge, perhaps as many as the burgh of Bristow itself: the three churches were built, although not of their present dimensions, which proves a population in their immediate vicinity: Tucker-street from its' situation is likely to have been then inhabited and a great part of Redcliff and St Thomas-streets; and there was a market holden every Monday at the top of Temple-street at Stallagecross. Maurice lord Berkeley granted a charter quoted above § 38, to his men of Redcliff; and there is little doubt that the other two charters

recited in the same §, refer to the men of Redcliff. They also joined the town of Bristow in the expence of building the stone bridge and making the new quay; our Calendars assert this, and the following mandamus from Henry III proves it. It is here copied from Barrett, p' 72, as translated by him from the original Latin: he does not say, whence he had it. 66 Henry by the grace of God, king of England, lord of Ireland, duke of Normandy, Aquitain and earl of Anjou, to all my honest men dwelling in la Redclive in the suburb of Bristol, wisheth health. Since our beloved burgesses of Bristol for the common profit of the town of Bristol, as well as of your suburb, have begun a certain trench in the marsh of St Augustin, that ships coming to our port of Bristol may more freely and without hindrance come in and go out, which trench indeed they cannot perfect without great charges; we therefore command you, that since from the bettering the said port no small advantage will accrue not only to those burgessses but also to you, who are partakers of the same liberties, which our said burgesses have in the said town, and are joined with them both in scot and lot, that you lend the same asistance as they do, as it will be also very profitable and useful to you to have the work of the trench happily compleated, according to what shall fall to your share together with our burgesses; and so effectually, that the aforesaid work, which we regard as our own, receive no delay through defect in you. Witness myself at Wyndleshore 29 April, 24 year of our reign." This was in 1240, about a month after the signing the covenant quoted above § 22.

§ 56. Other proofs of the population and wealth of Redcleve here follow. When king John went into Ireland A' D' 1210, the towns contributed an aid. Glocester (2) paid 500 marks; Bristow paid 1000 marks; the men of Redcliff 1000 marks; and the men of the Templars of Redcliffe 500 marks. In 30 Henry II [A'D' 1184] we have an oppor

(2) Auxilium villarum ad passagium yberniæ. Burgenses Gloucestriæ reddunt compotum de 500 marcis de eodem. Homines de Bristou reddunt compotum de 1000 marcis de eodem. Homines de Radecliue reddunt compotum de 1000 marcis de eodem. In thesauro 237£, 68, 8d: et Engelardo de Cigoni 225 marcas ad ponendum in Thesauro Regis apud Bristou. Homines Templariorum de Radecliue reddunt compotum de 500 marcis de eodem. Magn' Rot' 12 Johan' ap' Madox Excheq' Chap' XV, 10, Vol' I, p' 606.