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Rochester has nothing on the spot, but a great many MSS. in the old Royal Library in the British Museum. Winchester, York, Exeter, have few but precious books. There are important MSS. from Thorney at the Advocates Library, Edinburgh; from St. Mary's York, at Dublin; not a few from Cirencester at Jesus College, Oxford, and at Hereford; St.
It will be noticed that these five words, the meaning of which is, "Arepo, the sower, guides the wheels at work," form a kind of puzzle; they may be read in eight different directions. A large variety of sepulchral urns have been found at Cirencester. When dug up they usually contain little besides the ashes of the dead, though a few coins are sometimes included.
On the other side of Cirencester is a very beautiful park, with a broad avenue through it from the gates right in the town itself.
At Cirencester we had a brush again with Essex; that town owed us a shrewd turn for having handled them coarsely enough before, when Prince Rupert seized the county magazine. I happened to be in the town that night with Sir Nicholas Crisp, whose regiment of horse quartered there with Colonel Spencer and some foot; my own regiment was gone before to Oxford.
"And," said she, "after you have seen that the tiny spring which makes that wonderful river that runs right through London oh, I've been to London in my time! you can come back to Cirencester by the Fosse Way the Roman road to Bath."
This too, like Apamea, was built by the Macedonians and flourished not only in their days but during the following Roman age. Its general outline was ovoid, its greatest diameter three quarters of a mile, its area some 235 acres nearly the same with Roman Cologne and Roman Cirencester. Its streets resembled those of Apamea.
The ancient town of Cirencester the Caerceri of the early Britons, the Corinium of the Romans, and the Saxon Cyrencerne has been a place of importance on the Cotswolds from time immemorial. The abbreviations Cisetre and Cysseter were in use as long ago as the fifteenth century, though some of the natives are now in the habit of calling it Ciren. The correct modern abbreviation is Ciceter.
"To-day," he said, "we will run back to Bath from which it will be easy for you to train to Falmouth. We will go by Monmouth and then turn back through the Forest of Dean, where you will get glimpses of primitive coal mines still worked by two men and a boy with a windlass and a pail. Perhaps we will go through Cirencester. I don't know. Perhaps it is better to go straight to Bath.
"So I do," answered Roberts, without looking back to see his assailant, who the next day came and asked his forgiveness for the injury, as he could not sleep in consequence of it. We next find him attending the Quarter Sessions, where three "Friends" were arraigned for entering Cirencester Church with their hats on.
We then struck across the country, into the great Cirencester road, and made such haste, that we spent the next evening, save one, in London. "When you consider the place where I now was, and the company with whom I was, you will, I fancy, conceive that a very short time brought me to an end of that sum of which I had so iniquitously possessed myself.
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