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I have mentioned that there is internal evidence to show 
that the narrative must have been furnished to Foxx by a native 
of Gloucester or its neighbourhood. He calls, for instance, 
Cirencester by its local name Ciceter; and tells us, in true 
Mercian dialect, that Hooper arrived at Ciceter about a leven of 
the clock. This is precisely the form used by the country 
people about here now, in speaking of numbers. If six cows 
are seen feeding in a field, and one asks a labourer standing by, 
how many there are, he will not answer, sia, but “about a six.” - 
Again when he. describes the means used to fire the faggots 
round the stake at which Hoopsr stood, instead of speaking 
of the bundles of straw, he calls them by the local name reeds: 
gor wheat straw has always been called reed in this district so 
far as I have had knowledge of it. In the course of the narra- 
tive he speaks of the Bishop as being lodged in the house of “‘one 
Incram”; and later on incidentally says it was determined he 
should remain “in Robert Incraw’s house.” Now an entire 
stranger to the place would not have used the first name 
“Robert” here at all, but would simply have repeated the 
second, as before, and said, “Tyaram’s house.” The “ Robert” 
evidently slipped out naturally and unconsciously from the 
narrator, who knew him. Again, he incidentally mentions as 
accounting for the great crowd of seven thousand people who 
came to witness the burning, that it was the market day at 
Gloucester: and if we compare the date of Hoorsr’s leaving 
London, which is stated to be on “ Monday the fourth of 
February,” with the day of the week on which this would 
make the ninth of the month to fall (for he was burned on 
the ninth) we shall find it was on the market day: for 
heresies and false opinions at Salisbury, whereby his lands were forfeited to the 
Lords.” 
«A note in the margin questions whether a forfeiture so accrued, and so it 
would appear it was held, as in 4 & 5 PHILIP AND MARY, 23 August. 
« Ropr. IBLE, who married ALICE, JOHN CUBBERLEY’S widow, takes admittance 
to his lands sibi et swis. 
«The customs of the Manor were that no forfeiture arose for a Tenant’s 
crimes. That the widow of a deceased tenant marrying again empowered the 
second husband, on paying a fine, to come in and claim the first husband's lands.” 
