. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . the middle ages, as vicusfabrorum, and as Old Smith Street. This street leads directto the Severn, and is now called Long Smith Street. We readin Domesday Book that the City of Gloucester paid to KingEdward the Confessor, thirty-six dicras^ of iron and 100 malleableiron rods for nails of the Kings ships, and, probably, this acknow-ledgment was even then very ancient. It will be noticed thatthere is nothing here respecting horse-shoes or nails, and it is notunlikely that in the subsequent two or three centuries the i)aym
. Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society . the middle ages, as vicusfabrorum, and as Old Smith Street. This street leads directto the Severn, and is now called Long Smith Street. We readin Domesday Book that the City of Gloucester paid to KingEdward the Confessor, thirty-six dicras^ of iron and 100 malleableiron rods for nails of the Kings ships, and, probably, this acknow-ledgment was even then very ancient. It will be noticed thatthere is nothing here respecting horse-shoes or nails, and it is notunlikely that in the subsequent two or three centuries the i)aymenthad been somewliat modified. A seal connected with the City isremarkable for these devices. It is of silver, of the time of NichoUs Irou-inaking in the Forest of Dean, p. A dicra of iron consisted of ten bars, and a dicra (dicker) of leatherof ten hides.—{Baihifs Diet.) A dicra of gloves was ten pairs, a dicra ofhorse shoes, five sets. The original, in Domesday, unniistakeably readsdicras implying a decimal number or (juantity. 236 Transactions at King Edward III., for the Recognizances of Debtors, and is now inthe official custody of the Town Clerk. It is circular, and twenty-live lines in diameter, andis surrounded by the legend,S EDWARDI : REG :ANGL: AD : RECOGN :DEBITOR : APYD :GLOVCESTR. Itissemeeof horse-stubs, or nails, theKings bust, full-faced andcrowned between two horse-shoes in fess; in base thelion of England, as in themargin. 1 There are two other ancient seals also in the possession of theTown Clerk, the devices on which are not connected with horse-shoes, nails, or iron, but which, in treating of the Arms of the City,demand our notice. The first is a seal of the Bailiffs of Glouces-ter, circular, in diameter 1^ inches. It is of silver, and appendantto a chain of the same metal, furnished with a swivel and loop forattaching it to a girdle. The design is a castle with a centralspire, surmounted by a cross, and flanked by two crenelated tower
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