10 The Tioenty-Ninth General Meeting. 



The second and third faces are in hexameters : — 



■ « ■ O SEPTIMIVS NVMET 



L ■ SEPT RENOVAT ECTAM 



VPPR PRIMAE RISCARE 



REST PROVINCIAE CIONECO 



CIVST RECTOR VMNAM 



|ot»j" Qptimo Maximo 

 L SEPT""'"* [copnomen] 

 Vi> perfectisaimvs pf{aeses [prov Brit] 



REST'tfii! 



Qvrante IVST'"" 



«i?NVIVI ET "ECTAM 

 fRISCA RE«CIONE 

 CO'VMNAM 



SEPTIMIVS RENOVAT PRIMAE 

 PROVINCIAE RECTOR 



" Statue and column raised by old relig-ion, Septimius, Governor of 



the first Province, renews/-" Dr. Hubner says the lettering on the 



stone is that of the end of the third century, and this will very well 



agree with the other facts. It was in the reign of Diocletian (284 



to 305) that Britain was divided into Britannia Prima, Secunda, &c,, 



which divisions were, with a few modifications, retained till the end 



of the fourth century. This stone is the only epigraphic testimony 



to the fact known to exist; it also goes far to show that Cirencester 



was in Britannia Prima. Mr. Haverfield says that the mere finding 



of a definitely fourth century inscription, not being a milestone, is 



a notable fact in Romano-British epigraphy. 



The Evening Meeting concluded with the reading of a paper by 



the Rev. E. A. Fullek, on " An Illegal Merchant Guild granted 



to Cirencester by Henry IV.,^-" in which he said that Cirencester 



never had a Mayor or Corporation, it was still subject to-day, as it 



bad been all through history, to the control of the oflScers of the 



lord of the manor. 



WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 24th. 

 The Members of both Societies left Cirencester soon after 9 o'clock 

 and drove direct to Fairford Church. Here, in the unavoidable 

 absence abroad of the Vicar, the Rev. F. R. Carbonell, they were 

 received by the Rev. W. H. Wilmot, who conducted them round 

 the Church, each window being carefully examined and its particular 

 points of interest explained, after a paper by the Vicar on the 



