This inscription is not "in Earl Bathurst's park," as your correspondent A. SMITH says, but is in Oakley Woods, situated at some three or four miles' distance from Cirencester, and being separated and quite distinct from the park; nor is the inscription correctly copied. Rudder, in his new _History of Gloucestershire_, 1779, says: "Concealed as it were in the wood stands Alfred's Hall, a building that has the semblance of great antiquity. Over the door opposite to the south entrance, on the inside, is the following inscription in the Saxon character and language [of which there follows a copy]. Over the south door is the following Latin translation: "'Foedus quod AElfredus & Gythrunus reges, omnes _Anglia sapientes, & quicunq_; Angliam in_c_olebant orientalem, ferierunt; & non solum de seipsis, verum etiam de nat_i_s suis, ac nondum in lucem editis, quotquot misericordiae divinae aut regiae vel_i_nt esse participes jurejurando sanxerunt. "'Primo ditionis nostrae fines ad T_h_amesin evehunt_u_r, inde ad Leam usq; ad fontem ejus; t_u_m recta ad Bedfordiam, ac deniq; per Usam ad viam Vetelin_g_ianam.'" I copy from Rudder, with the stops and contracted "et's," as they stand in his work; though I think the original has points between each word, as marked by A. SMITH. The omissions and mistakes of your correspondent (which you will perceive are important) are marked in Italics above. Rudder adds,-- "Behind this building is a ruin with a stone on the chimney-piece, on which, in ancient characters relieved on the stone, is this inscription: 'IN . MEM . ALFREDI . REG . RESTAVR . ANO . DO . 1085.' "It would have been inexcusable in the topographer to have passed by so curious a place without notice; but the historian would have been equally culpable who should not have informed the reader that this building is an excellent imitation of antiquity. The name, the inscription, and the writing over the doors, of the convention between the good king and his pagan enemies, were probably all suggested by the similarity of _Achelie_, the ancient name of this place, to _AEcglea_, where King Alfred rested with his army the night before he attacked the Danish camp at Ethandun, and at length forced their leader Godrum, or Guthrum, or Gormund, to make such convention." It is many years since I saw the inscription, and then I made no note of it; but I have no doubt that Rudder has given it correctly, because when I was a young man I was intimately acquainted with him, who was then an aged person; and a curious circumstance that occurred between us, and is still full in my memory, impressed me with the idea of his great precision and exactness.