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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> But the means were thereby afforded for widening the streets which were originally very narrow. Of the havoc in the Civil War I shall have to say something further on. I may now state that on June 28th 1684 property to the amount of ?13684 was destroyed including the “handsome market-house built on free- stone pillars.” It was repaired but becoming ruinous was pulled down at the close of the last century and the present building erected on its site. Early on the morning of March 21 1781 a fire originating in an outhouse of the King’s Arms in the market-place burned all the houses except two on the west side of the street leading from the market-place to the church. At the same time two houses were burned near the pound the school-house several houses near the almshouse and all the houses in Church Street and Little Street upwards of fifty in all involving a loss estimated at eight thousand pounds of which six thousand pounds were insured. A daughter of Mr. Paviott master of the free school was burned to death. Besides the parish church a new church was built in 1850 and of both these I shall have to speak presently. There are also two chapels one belonging to the Wesleyans built in 1838 and the other to the Independents in 1749.1 The population is (1872) two thousand five hundred and eighty-four and the extent of the parish is four thousand nine hundred and six- teen acres. The population in 1851 was two thousand eight hundred and forty-two. The amount of poor’s-rate in the same year-or rather what is called poor’s-rate for the money. (MP)