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master and lost his lands. His wife was a lady of noble birth and a great heiress; her daughter was married to John's favourite, Falkes de Breauté ; obviously she had to be provided for. The king, when he was in her neighbourhood, made a very modest provision for her by granting a manor which had belonged to John of Préaux. Such acts of mercy, though Mr. Hall seems to find them hard to explain, were by no means uncommon even in John's reign. After all, the king had seized lands belonging to Warin in more than a dozen counties (Rot. Claus. i. 295). Was a grave charge against the honour of a lady ever brought with less reason? But we confess that we have discussed the paper rather with the purpose of calling attention to a method of argument which is but too common, than with the chivalrous desire to exculpate Alice of Courcy.

Mr. George Neilson has pointed out that the phrase, 'that me seide,' in the College of Arms MS., which puzzles Mr. Hall (p. 22), is almost certainly meant for that me (i.e. men) seide.'

We have received the Presidential Address by the Right Hon. James Bryce with the 'remarks' by Dr. A. W. Ward, the acting President, at the opening of the International Congress of Historical Studies, London, 1913. The address and not less the remarks' struck a magnificent note of welcome and prelude to their doubly historical occasion.

Remember the Days of Old (pp. 8. 6d. net) is a sermon preached in Westminster Abbey to the recent Historical Congress by the Dean, Dr. H. E. Ryle. It is an eloquent discourse for the occasion, well punctuated by references to the Abbey itself, as an illustrious historical epitome, with its 'tombs of warlike Plantagenets, wilful Tudors, vacillating Stuarts, prosaic Hanoverians,'

To the British Academy proceedings Mr. Sidney Low contributes an essay, The Organization of Imperial Studies in London (London: Frowde, Is. net), which is a trenchant plea for an Imperial School of Colonial Studies.

From the Academy's Proceedings we also have Prolegomena to the Study of the Later Irish Bards, 1200-1500, by Mr. E. C. Quiggin (London: Humphrey Milford. Pp. 55. 3s. 6d. net). It is an important original contribution to the history and criticism of the bards, and in particular it illustrates the influence exerted on Irish literature by the prevalence of poetical panegyrics of families or chiefs. Many curious quotations are given from bardic authors, whose very names are known only to specialists. An interesting point is the proof that 'exempla,' legends of saints, and even the Gesta Romanorum were sources of matter used, either for independent subjects or in combination, by old Irish poets.

The Historical Association of Scotland opens up a promising course of aids to study in the Concise Bibliography of the History of the City of Aberdeen and its Institutions (pp. 40), which Mr. J. F. Kelley Johnstone has drawn up and which forms Pamphlet No. 3 of the Association's issues to its members.

In the Carnegie Trust Report for 1911-12, Professor Hume Brown gives an informing summary of historical studies, published and prospective, under the Trust's auspices. Mr. Meikle's book on Scotland and the French Revolution stands to the credit of completed work, while Mr. A. O. Anderson's Scottish Annals, from Early Scottish, Manx, Irish, Scandinavian, and Welsh Sources, promised for next year, bids fair to be a valuable companion to his volume of translated passages from English chronicles.

The Fourth Interim Report of the Excavations at Maumbury Rings, Dorchester, 1912, by Mr. H. St. George Gray (Dorchester: Dorset County Chronicle, 1913, pp. 28, Is.), reports upon these archaeologically remunerative cuttings, describes their special features and figures, many of the finds (including a grave hewn in the chalk), shafts mined (possibly for flints) to a depth of nearly thirty feet, many antler picks, a piece of very early pottery, an uninscribed British coin, etc. A phallic carving in the chalk was found fifteen feet down. The patient labour of digging and classifying brings gradually nearer the hope of a complete account of the Rings or Amphitheatre.

Viking Society publications attest the vitality of its members. The Year Book, Vol. IV., 1911-12, pp. 113, is a compact record of versatile activities: it contains notes, reports, and reviews, and is an attractive northern miscellany of specialised research. Caithness and Sutherland Records and the Old Lore Miscellany are efficiently continued. In the latter (JanuaryApril) Mr. A. Francis Steuart is editing the correspondence of Charles Stewart, an Orcadian, who became Receiver-General of Customs in British North America, and died at Edinburgh in 1797. In the April issue there is given a view of Kirkwall in 1766, with ships in the harbour and harvesting operations in the foreground. The Rev. D. Beaton begins a revised and critical account of the early Christian monuments of Caithness.

In The English Historical Review (April) Mr. H. Jenkinson and Miss M. T. Stead edit a roll of debts owing to a certain William Cade early in the reign of Henry II. The document is interpreted as a record of the first English financier on record. His transactions included at least one bad debt in Scotland:

Alanus filius Walteri vii libras per plegium Thomæ de Lundoniæ. in scocia. mihil.

The authors' suggestion that this indicates the flight of a 'criminal' to Scotland seems rather offhand and egregious if, as may possibly be presumed, the debtor was Alan, son of the Steward of Scotland. This is one point suggesting doubt about the proposed date of 1166 for the rolls. One entry refers to a last of wool from 'Berewic in lodeneis,' a useful mention of Lothian under a much discussed form. Dr. W. H. Stevenson returns to a field of ancient battle in his article on 'Senlac and the Malfossé,' which, with weighty documents to vouch, establishes 'Sandlake' as a division of the little town of Battle. Other papers deal with Irish Cistercian documents, the accounts of a papal collector in England in 1304, and the records of Justices of Peace from 1364 until 1391.

Berks, Bucks and Oxon Archaeological Journal (Jan.), besides notes on churches, brasses, etc., has a good obituary notice of James Parker, 18331912, an industrious architectural, liturgical, and geological antiquary, son of John Henry Parker, yet more famous as an authority on Gothic architecture.

Epitaphs and brasses of sixteenth and seventeenth century Ayshcombes and Wellesbornes are well described and illustrated in the Journal for April. Field names are discussed in a well documented article.

Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset (Dec. 1912, April 1913) continue printing the tenures of Sherborne, anno 1377, which are full of information on agricultural services, such as that of one tenant grepiare circa boveria, another includere porcheria, another colligere prayes, another invenire unum hominem ad mollonem feni. One document printed is concerning a charge of atheism made in 1594 against Sir Walter Raleigh over a conversation about the immortality of the soul.

In The Juridical Review (April) some unfairnesses of Lord Lovat's trial are exposed; a reasonable argument is submitted that Gibson of Durie was only once kidnapped (i.e. in 1601, when he was not a Judge but only a Clerk of Session); and a coronation point is advanced, contradicting Dr. Round, that the service of carrying the great gold spurs descended through Marshal blood, not through the office of Marshal. The ceremonial of the spurs was one of the analogues of the coronation with the creation of a knight.

In the American Historical Review (Jan.), Mr. Laprade analyses the politics of Pitt, 1784-88, in the Westminster elections. Mr. N. W. Stephenson groups fresh facts on General Lee's countenance to the project of arming the slaves in the final stages of the Confederate secession. The April number, besides an eloquent disquisition on 'History as Literature,' by Mr. Roosevelt, offers several valuable studies; Mr. Thompson suggesting new lines of medieval investigation; Mr. H. Vignaud ridiculing the claim that Columbus was a Spanish Jew; Mr. C. F. Adams redescribing the famous sea-fight of the Constitution and the Guerrière in 1812; and Mr. W. E. Dodd opening fresh subjects of American history, 1815-60, specially inclusive of sectarian influences.

The Maryland Historical Magazine (March) edits an instalment of the Rev. Jonathan Boucher's letters from Carolina to a friend of his at home in Cumberland. In one of them, dated 1769, occurs a pleasingly candid criticism of national character. It is about a certain 'raw Scotchman,' of whom Boucher writes: 'He seem'd modest which is so rare a Virtue in people of his Country that I was pleas'd with ye Man.'

The Iowa Journal (January) prints the graphic and stirring report and journal of Captain James Allen's dragoon expedition or reconnaissance into Indian territory, setting out from Fort Des Moines in August, 1844. Touches of Indian lore include the 'custom of giving away horses on a ceremony of smoking.'

The Caledonian (New York, April, 1913, The Thirteenth Anniversary Number, illustrated, pp. 48) shows how the heather flourishes when transplanted.

Educational Review (New York) for April, has an éloge-rather disfigured by the obtrusion of modern politics—of Alexander Hamilton.

In the Revue Historique (Mars-Avril), a study of the life of Erasmus to 1517, by A. Renaudet, contributes not only to biography but to criticism. In the Mai-Juin issue M. Ed. Rott reveals intrigues of Richelieu for a projected annexation of Geneva in 1632, which he himself disapproved after it had failed. M. Homo commences a study of the reign of the Emperor Gallienus-an epoch of crisis and disaster.

The interaction between events and historiography is interestingly indicated by the foundation in 1912 of what we may call a Balkan Bulletin. It is the Bulletin de la Section Historique de l'Académie Roumaine (Bucarest Charles Göbl, I fr.), and the contents of the first three numbers display the acuteness and width of the political, folklore, ecclesiastical, and literary interest which it represents. Contributions are admissible in Latin, French, German, Italian, and English.

Bulletins de la Société des Antiquaires de l'Ouest (troisème série, tome II., Avril 1911-Juin 1912, Poitiers: J. Lévrier, 1911, 1912), describe the prisons of Poitiers under the Terror, deal with early printing by the Bouchet family from 1491 onward to the middle of the sixteenth century, and present an inventory of objects acquired by the Society for the local museums. A very important article by M. Levillian is a well-illustrated and complete account and discussion of the 'Memoria' of Abbot Mellebaudus, dating perhaps circa 727 A.D., and consisting of an extraordinary crypt with sculptures and inscriptions to commemorate saints and martyrs, 'Ácnanus, Lauritus, Varigatus, Helarius, Martinius,' and others whose bones the abbot piously gathered in his 'spelunca,' 'hypogee-martyrium,' or Chiron-martir.' The sculptured panels of saints and angels resemble the figures of saints graven on the coffin of St. Cuthbert. A portrait of Camille de la Croix and several eloges pronounced after his death are fitting tribute to the antiquary-priest in whose extensive bibliography of discoveries and dissertations the work he did on the 'Memoria' occupies an honourable place.

Notes and Comments

SIR R. MORAY AND THE LIVES OF THE HAMILTONS.' In Nov., 1669, Burnet began work as Divinity Professor at Glasgow,1 and during the next eighteen months he was a frequent visitor at the home of the Duke of Hamilton.2 He undertook to examine the documents relating to the careers of the father and uncle of the Duchess, and the result was the Lives of the Hamiltons. When Lauderdale heard that the work was completed, he requested the author to repair to London, which Burnet did in the year 1671.4 Lauderdale 'was sure he could give it a finishing." 'All the additions he gave to my work was with relation to those passages in which he had a share. I took them all readily from him, but could not bring myself to comply with his brutal imperious humours.'

At the same time, Sir Robert Moray, who was no longer friendly with Lauderdale,' saw Burnet's original MS. At first Burnet wrote this work historically and only drew the most material heads and passages out of the papers that lay before' him: but that noble and judicious gentleman, Sir R. Moray, to whose memory I owe the most grateful acknowledgments that can be paid by a person infinitely obliged to him, and that did highly value his extraordinary parts and rare virtues, gave me such reasons to change the whole work, and to insert most of the papers at full length, that prevailed on me to do it.' 8

Hereupon Burnet returned to Scotland, but two years later, 'in the year 1673, I went up again to print the Memoirs of the Dukes of Hamilton.' According to Mr. Dewar, he carried with him to Court a second MS. which contained the improvements that Moray had recommended. 'It is this MS. part of which is preserved to-day.' 10

The work, however, was not published until 1678, and before its publication it underwent still further changes at the suggestion of Charles II.,

1 G. Burnet, History of My Own Time, Foxcroft's Supplement, p. 477-
2 Ibid. p. 479.
4 Ibid. p. 479.

3 Ibid. p. 479.

5 G. Burnet, History of My Own Time, vol. i. p. 533.

Ibid., Foxcroft's Supplement, p. 479.

7 G. Burnet, History of My Own Time, vol. i. p. 533.

8 Burnet's Lives of the Hamiltons, Preface, p. xviii.

9 Burnet's Own Time, vol. ii. p. 24; Supplement, p. 482.

10 Sc. Hist. Review, iv. p. 384 et seq. Article by Mr. R. Dewar.

11 T. Clark and H. Foxcroft, Life of Burnet, Introd. by C. H. Firth, p. xiv.

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