...butchers dress their meat at their own doors, while pigs wallow in the mire. The baths are beargardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously ; while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, cats, and pigs." In 1644, queen Henrietta, the wife of Charles I., came for the benefit of the waters. In 1663, king...

...bad as the morals of the bathers. Dr. Jordan, writing in 1631, says, " The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously ; while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, cats, and pigs." By the rigid enforcement of by-laws the corporation amended the nuisance, and the good effect of their...

...as bad as the morals of the bathti-. Dr. Jordan, writing in 1031, says, "The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously ; while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, eats, and pigs.'' By the rigid enforeement of by-laws the corporation amended the nuisanee, and the...

...pigs, as in the mythical times of Prince Bladnd, wallowed in the mire. ' The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogB, cats, and pigs.' Still the people bathed on ; a strong proof of the efficacy of the waters. Bath...

...century, when " the streets " were " dunghills, slaughter-houses, and pigsties;" the baths, "bear-gardens where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, outs, and pigs, and even human creatures are hurled over the rails into the water I " The most original...

...he appeared after breaking his neck. Writing in 1631, Dr. Jordan says: "The baths are bear-gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by...creatures are hurled over the rails into the water." It is not so bad as that now, but lodgings are still held at rates which might be advantageously tempered...

..."for the streets are dung-hills, slaughter-houses, and pigsties ; . . . the baths are beargardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers-by pelt them with dead dogs, cats, and pigs," writes a certain Dr. Jordan. Another writer adds : " The roads are so bad it is scarce possible to...

...streets are dunghills, slaughterhouses and pigstys. The butchers dress the meat at their own doors, while pigs wallow in the mire. The baths are bear gardens, where both sexes bathe promiscuously, while the passers by pelt them with dead dogs, cats and pigs." In Leland's description of Bath in 1538, he says,...