228 Avebury. — Archaological " Varia." 



joining' together in earliest days the royal cities of Winch comb and 

 Cirencester, and being always the line of communication between 

 Cirencester and Winehcomb and Tewkesbury with their great 

 monasteries, and Worcester also the seat of the Diocesan. 



Thus we find all the modern streets already accounted for in the 

 lists except Sheep-street-lane, and the line of Lewis-lane and Querns 

 lane, while we have allotted the Fosse to Lewis-lane, and New 

 Strete possibly was Querns-lane, and I am inclined to suggest that 

 Shoter-street was Sheep-street-lane. 



It is very unfortunate that the papers of the late Rev. J. Collin- 

 son, at the end of the last century curate of Cirencester, have 

 disappeared : Rudder mentions old Court Rolls and deeds which 

 CoUinson had discovered, while Brayley and Britton quote a des« 

 cription of the ancient circuit of the walls from the miscellaneous 

 notices about Cirencester which he had collected. He seems to 

 have become involved towards the end of his life, and his papers 

 were I presume dispersed, and though I have enquired in sundry 

 directions I have failed hitherto to gain any information as to what 

 has become of them. 



E. A. Fuller. 



By the Rev. Betan King, 

 Vicar of Avebury. 



HAVE in my possession a copy of Stukeley's Stonehenge 

 and Abury which contains a MS, work of the author, of 

 some interest. This consists of a small folio leaf inserted opposite 

 p. 10, on which the following passage occurs: — " The particular 

 spot of ground where Stonehenge stands, is in the lordship of West 

 or little Ambresbury : the possession of the Reverend Mr. Hayward, 

 who at present may be called the Archdruid of the island.^'' On 

 the side of this inserted leaf facing p. 10, there is a portrait executed 



