220 Ancient Cirencester, and its Streets and Hundreds. 



being included in this order ; if through default of the lord this 

 were not done, then he should be answerable for any robbery, while 

 if he wished it the country was to aid him in felling the underwood ; 

 and everyone was to have in his house armour, to help keep the 

 peace, according to the quantity of his lands and goods : one worth 

 £15 in lands, and goods of forty marcs being bound to have a 

 hauberke of iron, a sword, a knife, and a horse, and so downwards 

 till one with but twenty marcs in goods, had to keep a sword, or 

 knife, or other small arms, and all other that might, bow and arrows. 

 There was to be a view of armour (in North Britain weapon-schaw- 

 ynge) twice a year. The view of wardstaff was the enquiry to see 

 how the watch above named had been kept. 



Then as to Cirencester names. Of course frequent mention is 

 made in deeds in the Abbey Registers of different streets, but the 

 Lady Chapel Register contains a terrier, dated 1459, of lands and 

 tenements according to streets, while there is a full list also in what 

 are called the minister's accounts, preserved in the Rolls Office, i.e. 

 the accounts rendered yearly by the King's bailiff of the rents of 

 the Abbey lands and tenements after the dissolution. In 1540, 

 J. George, gentleman, formerly bailiff under the Abbot, made the 

 return, and the same names are repeated, most of them, several 

 times in the same order, under different heads : Chepingstrete, 

 Crekelade Strete, le Fosse, New Strete, Castell Strete, Shoter Street, 

 Gosediche Strete, Inchthrop, Abbot Strete, Battel Strete, Dolehall 

 Strete, Rotten Rewe, St. Lawrence Strete. In deeds in the Lady 

 Chapel Register I find Vicus tinctorius, Dyar Strete, alias Chepyng- 

 strete ; Vicus bellicus, Batel Strete, ; while in the terrier it is St. 

 Ceceyley Strete instead of Inchthrop, Raten Rew instead of Rotten 

 Rew, and New Strete is placed before le Fosse. In the Abbey 

 Registers an early deed mentions a tenement in Syte Strete. 



Chepingstrete was counted to begin from the corner of Crekelade 

 Street, for it contained the Shambles or Bocherewe (Rudder is 

 wrong in his conclusion here also), the Gaol, the Cage, the Bothe- 

 hall, and sixty-six feet further on the Salte which, the Market Place 

 and the Stoke house — a house by the Stocks I presume. 



The Fosse, it is certain, has no relation to Gosditch Street or that 



