VOL. XX. (2) 
ANCIENT CIRENCESTER 
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to its Friday Street which it possessed for four centuries, named 
from the Friday markets. For fifty years it was called after a 
modem public-house. Cirencester should take heed. It may 
not sound dignified for London’s centre to have a Gutter Lane ; 
but when you have reason to believe it commemorates that 
very Danish King whom Alfred converted and who kept his 
oath at Cirencester, the matter is more interesting. 
