Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . times much in-creased by visitors. B. has no manufactures of any note. Coalis found in the neighborhood. The Great Western Railway fromLondon to the west passes through the city. B. is of great anticx-uity; it was a Roman station called Aqnm Soils, at the intersec-tion of the great Roman ways from London to Wales, and fromLincoln to the south coast of England. Richard I. granted B. its•earliest extant charter, ^j^^ ,,which was subsequently ^Vs*confirmed by Henry III.,and greatly extended by?George III. A greater num
Chambers's encyclopaedia; a dictionary of universal knowledge for the people . times much in-creased by visitors. B. has no manufactures of any note. Coalis found in the neighborhood. The Great Western Railway fromLondon to the west passes through the city. B. is of great anticx-uity; it was a Roman station called Aqnm Soils, at the intersec-tion of the great Roman ways from London to Wales, and fromLincoln to the south coast of England. Richard I. granted B. its•earliest extant charter, ^j^^ ,,which was subsequently ^Vs*confirmed by Henry III.,and greatly extended by?George III. A greater num-ber of Roman remains havebeen found in and near elsewhere in Britain;in 1881, a complete Romanbath was uncovered. BATH, Knights ofTHE. The name of thisorder is derived from theceremony of bathing, whichused to be practised at theinauguration of a knight,as an emblem of the purityhenceforth required of himby the laws of ceremony is of un-known antiquity, and is CoUnr and Badge of the Bath.«poken of by writers of the 13th c. as an ancient custom. See.
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