Yet when I came to think of it I could not recall any Bath celebrity or great person associated with Bath except Beau Nash, who was not perhaps a very great person.

Probably Carlyle would have described him as a "meeserable creature." Leaving my seat I began to examine the inscriptions, and found that they had not been placed there in memory of men belonging to Bath or even Somerset.

These monuments were erected to persons from all counties in the three kingdoms, and from all the big towns, those to Londoners being most numerous.

Nor were they of persons distinguished in any way.

Here you find John or Henry or Thomas Smith, or Brown, or Jones, or Robinson, provision dealer, or merchant, of Clerkenwell, or Bermondsey, or Bishopsgate Street Within or Without; also many retired captains, majors, and colonels.