21f> Ancient Cirencester, and its Streets and Hundreds. 



Item, whether any sell ale without license, and whether such as be licensed 

 do any act contrary to their license, and what disorders are kept in such ale - 

 houses. 5 Edw. vi. c. 25. 



Item, whether the Poor in every parish be relieved as is appointed by Statute, 

 and whether bastards be provided for, and their reputed parents punished. And 

 whether vagabonds be punished. 14 Eliz. c. 2. 



Item, whether th' order prescribed for eating of fish on Wensday be kept : 

 and whether flesh be eaten without license upon any days now usually observed 

 as fish days. 2 Edw. vi. c. 9. 



These are the causes whereof you are to 

 enquire and present. 

 / For assuring the Quene's Majestie's power over 

 Statutes to be read I all estates. 5 Eliz. c. 1 . 

 at Sessions of the < For maintenance of Artillery. 33 H. viij. c. 9. 

 Peace. I Against unlawful assemblies. 1 Mary, c. 12. 



• 1 Eliz. c. 17." 



[To be Continued.'] 



^nriettt Cittncesttr, anb its &tottts anh 



By the Rev. E. A. Fulleb. 



^t^j^UDDEE/j in his account of Cirencester, tells us firstly that 

 (|J ^^Cirencester was made a distinct hundred in 4 Henry IV., 

 when that King conferred sundry privileges on the town, and secondly 

 that the country parishes outside Cirencester where then formed 

 into another hundred, which was called The out Torn (Torn being 

 an ancient name for the Sheriff's hundred court) from the fact that 

 the hundred court was held outside the town, and that the name 

 became corrupted through Th'out Torn to what he calls the unmean- 

 ing appellation of Crowthorne. I am rather doubtful, from my 

 present information, about his first point, for I have a copy of the 

 charter for a guild merchant which in 4 Henry IV. the King gave 

 the townsmen, and it appears to me that it simply frees the town 

 from the jurisdiction of the Abbot, the lord of the seven hundreds of 

 Cirencester with whom the townsmen were often at feud ; while the 



