The depiction of the Hot and Leper's Baths at Bath, Somerset, England, from the figures decorating the margins of Moll's map of "Somerset Shire" (Somerset), the sixth in his <i>Set of Fifty New and Correct Maps of England and Wales...</i>
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The caption reads: "The Hott Bath at high water holds 53 Tuns 2 Hog. 11 Gall. The Beggers or Lazars Bath." <i>Lazar</i> was an old term for a leper, most of whom were forced to depend on their family or the church or to beg instead of having any trade themselves. The last being unmeasured, on the assumption that the hogshead is a quarter tun and Moll's tun held 252 gallons, the other measured somewhere between 50,000–63,000 liters, the gallons of Moll's era varying widely.
<br><b>Notes:</b> London: Sold by H. Moll over-against Devereux-Court in the Strand; Tho. Bowles, Print and Map-Seller near the Chapter-House in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and J. Bowles Print and Map-Seller over-against Stocks-Market. 1724.
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<bdi><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/en:Herman_Moll" class="extiw" title="w:en:Herman Moll"><span title="18th-century English cartographer">Herman Moll</span></a>
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1724<div style="display: none;">date QS:P571,+1724-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
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